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Arrakhis: The tiny satellite aiming to reveal what dark matter is made of
By Andreea Font published
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently announced a new mission of its science program: a small telescope orbiting the Earth dubbed Arrakhis.
Powerful linear accelerator begins smashing atoms – 2 scientists on the team explain how it could reveal rare forms of matter
By Sean Liddick, Artemis Spyrou published
The accelerator at FRIB started working at low power, but when it finishes ramping up to full strength, it will be the most powerful heavy-ion accelerator on Earth.
Missing the moment history happens: The media and 'NewSpace' (op-ed)
By Rick Tumlinson published
The important stuff, if mentioned at all, wasn't part of the build-up to the Artemis story about NASA finally returning to the moon after 50 years or so.
'One of the greatest damn mysteries of physics': We studied distant suns in the most precise astronomical test of electromagnetism yet
By Michael Murphy published
There's an awkward, irksome problem with our understanding of nature's laws that physicists have been trying to explain for decades.
BlueWalker 3, an enormous and bright communications satellite, is genuinely alarming astronomers
By Michael J. I. Brown published
On a dark night, away from the city lights, you can see the stars in the same way as your ancestors did centuries ago.
The sky isn't just blue — airglow makes it green, yellow and red too
By Michael J. I. Brown, Matthew Kenworthy published
Is blue the true color of the sky, or the only color of the sky? It's complicated.
Tracking CO2 emissions from space could help support climate agreements
By Ray Nassar published
The central objective of the Paris Agreement is to limit Earth's warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, but preferably below 1.5 degrees.
Why fusion ignition is being hailed as a major breakthrough in fusion — a nuclear physicist explains
By Carolyn Kuranz published
American scientists have announced what they have called a major breakthrough in a long-elusive goal of creating energy from nuclear fusion.
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