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A team of Japanese scientists led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University’s Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, has discovered a mineral known as moganite in a lunar meteorite found in a hot desert in northwest Africa. Continue reading “Long suspected theory about the moon holds water”
Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their work, which forges new connections between atomic physics and the sudden expansion of the early universe, will be published in Physical Review X and highlighted by Physics. Continue reading “Atoms may hum a tune from grand cosmic symphony”
Southwest Research Institute scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth-Moon system. Their work shows that an impact between proto-Mars and a dwarf-planet-sized object likely produced the two moons, as detailed in a paper published today in Science Advances. Continue reading “Martian moons model indicates formation following large impact”
This is an essay that was originally published in the April 8, 1965 edition of The Boston Globe (p. 18) by Fr. John S. Romanides (1927–2001), a Greek Orthodox presbyter, author, and professor of theology. It is presented here in its entirety with some minor, stylistic editing. Continue reading “An Orthodox Perspective on Alien Life”
About 70,000 years ago, a small reddish star approached our solar system and gravitationally disturbed comets and asteroids. Astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Cambridge have verified that the movement of some of these objects is still marked by that stellar encounter. Continue reading “A star disturbed the comets of the solar system 70,000 years ago”
Ένας αστρονομικός υπολογιστής 2.000 ετών που χρησιμοποιούσαν οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες για την χαρτογράφηση της θέσης του Ήλιου, της Σελήνης και των πλανητών ενδέχεται να είχε και άλλη μια χρήση: την πρόβλεψη του μέλλοντος, λένε ερευνητές. Continue reading “Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων: Ο πρώτος υπολογιστής της ιστορίας”
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