Tag: explaining
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Explaining. Geometry. Rage!
Geometric storm patterns on Jupiter's south pole have been a mystery to scientists, but researchers may have uncovered how they form. (1) Explaining things. By simply... explaining them. Describing how they are formed. By describing how they are… formed. Humans who learnt how to think. By just... thinking. Oh, dark skies. Now I see why…
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Science: NOT explaining. Being: NO reason.
Several exploding stars have been found outside the cozy confines of galaxies, where most stars reside. These wayward supernovae are also weird because they exploded billions of years before their predicted detonations. Using archived observations from several telescopes, astronomers have developed a theory for where these doomed stars come from and how they arrived at…
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Saturn rings. Predicting models. And the (philosophical) uselessness of science. [Predicting models: An autoanaphorical lie]
Why do Saturn's rings look like that? New research from the University of Leicester finally confirms why the planet's iconic rings look the way they do -- and the answer might allow us to make predictions about other planetary rings in the universe. Saturn's rings are made of chunks of ice and rock that range…
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