SCIENCE
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Global warming makes hurricanes stronger, but less frequent | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This graph shows the historical tropical cyclone frequency as a function of day of the year, with all tropical cyclones…
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JWST finds distant galaxy with “impossible” light signature | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This photometrically derived image of galaxy JADES-GS-z13-1-LA, as acquired with a variety of JWST NIRCam photometric filters, showcases a bright…
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Ask Ethan: Could we determine if UAPs/UFOs are aliens? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
There are many sights in Earth’s night sky that have been witnessed by humans that don’t have a clear and…
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The one cosmic secret that demands a new particle collider | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This illustration shows a hypothetical ring around the Earth, which could represent a particle accelerator even larger than the Earth’s…
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Ask Ethan: Why are inertial and gravitational mass equivalent? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
Here on Earth, in the gravitational field of our planet, there is no way to “shield” ourselves from the gravitational…
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Official verdict: JWST’s early galaxies didn’t break cosmology | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This region of space, viewed first iconically by Hubble and later by JWST, shows an animation that switches between the…
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Ask Ethan: Why don’t we feel the Universe’s expansion accelerating? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
The expanding Universe, full of galaxies and the complex structure we observe today, arose from a smaller, hotter, denser, more…
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What is the origin of quantum uncertainty? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
Today, the Universe has evolved into the complex, life-friendly place we know it to be because we were able to…
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Why do we count the Universe’s age from 13.8 billion years ago? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
If you look farther and farther away, you also look farther and farther into the past. If the number of…
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If the Big Bang wasn’t the first thing ever, what caused it? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
The expanding Universe, full of galaxies and the complex structure we observe today, arose from a smaller, hotter, denser, more…
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