A White Dwarf PulsarIn 2022, a new pulsating radio source in the Milky-Way galaxy was discovered by Natasha Hurley-Walker and collaborators from Curtin…20h ago120h ago1
Island MentalityImagine living on a paradise island, where food and water are abundant. The island is so large that it takes ten thousand years to cross it…1d ago41d ago4
Casting Galileo in BronzeThe great American sculptor Greg Wyatt was described by Professor Sir Stanley Wells, a renowned Shakespearian scholar, as follows: “I…3d ago33d ago3
Experimental Quantum GravityAt the end of a new podcast interview, the brilliant undergraduate student Oem Trivedi — with whom I had the privilege of coauthoring a…4d ago64d ago6
Living in a Big CrunchThis morning, I woke up with sweat over my forehead following a scientific nightmare. In my dream, the demon imagined by the physicist…6d ago196d ago19
Yes, It’s Possible to be Scientific and AmericanTen days ago, Laura Helmuth resigned from her position as chief editor of Scientific American. The reason was simple. As brilliantly…Nov 2513Nov 2513
Are We the Last Generation Who Feels Alone?Science offers the privilege of staying curious. By this I mean that it offers the opportunity to stay open minded and be guided by…Nov 237Nov 237
Exotic or Mundane?The opportunity to encounter exotic phenomena makes life thrilling. In contrast, the boring routine is to meet the mundane. We crave for…Nov 218Nov 218
Earth and Mars Acquire Saturn-Like Rings Over Hundreds of Millions of YearsIn the current snapshot of the Solar system, Mars has an inner moon named Phobos, whose orbital radius shrinks by 2 meters per century as a…Nov 195Nov 195
Neutrinos Cannot Travel Faster Than Light, or Else Black Holes Would Not be StableIn September 2011, the OPERA experiment at CERN reported that neutrinos travel faster than light. Nearly two hundred papers tried to make…Nov 179Nov 179
