SCIENCE

Why invest in fundamental research? A former Nazi explains | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

Ernst Stuhlinger, seated at far left, was one of the early pioneers of NASA and of spaceflight missions in general…

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Ask Ethan: Does the multiverse explain our fundamental constants? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

We normally conceive of our Universe as having emerged from a preceding period of cosmic inflation, with our Big Bang…

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There are 7 states of matter; “topoconductor” isn’t one of them | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

When the proper conditions are achieved, even multiple fermions, which normally cannot occupy the same quantum state, can reach a…

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How astronomers solved the “Zone of Avoidance” puzzle | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

This image shows a laser guide star being created towards the galactic center of the Milky Way. While the Milky…

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4 key steps to transform the USA back into a scientific nation | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

In July of 1969, humanity took our first steps on the surface of another world: the Moon. This was the…

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Hubble completes the largest galactic mosaic of all-time | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025

This selection of the Andromeda galaxy comes courtesy of the largest photomosaic ever assembled with Hubble Space Telescope data. There’s…

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Ask Ethan: Could dark matter be “normal stuff” we can’t see? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025

The full-field image of MACS J0717.5+3745 shows many thousands of galaxies in four separate sub-clusters within the large cluster. The…

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JWST catches star vaporizing the hottest rocky exoplanets | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025

This illustration shows a star, an orbiting exoplanet, and a cloud (or tail) of debris that emanates off of the…

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Starts With A Bang podcast #114 — Pluto and Charon | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025

Here in our own Solar System, we have at least three notable large, terrestrial-sized bodies with impressive lunar systems of…

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No, we can’t geoengineer our way out of the climate crisis | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025

This map shows the global temperatures in each region of Earth for the year 2024, relative to the average recorded…

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