Tag: Universe
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Dinosaurs. Νείκος. Φιλότης.
A new publication on the bird-like dinosaur Avimimus, from the late-Cretaceous suggests they were gregarious, social animals - evidence that flies in the face of the long-held mysticism surrounding dinosaurs as solo creatures. "The common mythology of dinosaurs depicts solitary, vicious monsters running around eating everything," explains Gregory Funston, PhD student and Vanier scholar at…
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Time moving forward. Time moving backwards…
Most of our lives revolve around time, from the instant our alarm clocks go off to attending afternoon appointments to the moment we call bedtime. Tick tock. But what exactly is time, and why is it always marching forward? A new paper suggests that the arrow of time - a term given to the forward…
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A deaf movie critic. Universe upside down.
A deaf man criticizing movies. (1, 2) Listen instead of seeing. See without listening. Feel instead of watching. Surprise the universe. And you will be rewarded with a whole new perspective. The world upside down. This is how it should always feel. Or heard. Or sought. Or... whatever.
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Negative mass. Impossibilities. Dasein.
Matter with negative mass, a seeming impossibility, could actually have existed in the early universe, a new study shows. A novel solution to Einstein’s equations for gravity permits the existence of negative mass in a rapidly expanding universe like our own, physicists Manu Paranjape and Saoussen Mbarek of the University of Montreal report November 14…
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A cosmic glow. In a void far far away...
Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers have detected a diffuse cosmic glow that appears to represent more light than that produced by known galaxies in the universe. The researchers, including Caltech Professor of Physics Jamie Bock and Caltech Senior Postdoctoral Fellow Michael Zemcov, say that the best explanation is…
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