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Category: Physics

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New Cavity Discovered in the Great Pyramid of Egypt

Posted on November 15, 2017October 24, 2022 by SanjoySom

An international team of scientists recently detected a new cavity in the 4000 year old Great Pyramid of Egypt! The detection method, muon…

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    What Protects Exoplanets from Damaging Solar Flares?

    Posted on November 14, 2017October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

    Thanks to NASA’s Kepler Mission, over one-thousand potentially habitable exoplanets have been discovered to-date, orbiting around their…

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      A New Field of Science: Space Pasta and Nuclear Crusts

      Posted on November 8, 2017December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

      A new field of science is born – astromaterial science. First mentioned in today’s paper, this scientific field studies materials of…

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        Gravitational Waves from A Neutron Star Merger Shake the Earth and Astrophysics

        Posted on October 19, 2017December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

        Big News! Astrophysics receives a gift. Interferometers at LIGO and Virgo detected gravitational waves coming from two neutron stars…

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          The Sleeping Giant in a Small Town

          Posted on October 16, 2017December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

          Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in the middle of nowhere. This nearly record-breaking…

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            Two Black Holes Made a Mega Black Hole!

            Posted on October 11, 2017December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

            1.76 billion light years away, two black holes smashed into one another, bearing one huge black hole the size of 53 suns. The explosion from…

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              Tumbleweeds Interrupt the Discovery of Black Holes

              Posted on July 10, 2017December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

              “How moving!” is what the Earth would say when it comes into contact with gravitational waves. Albert Einstein’s general theory of…

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                Have we finally found dark matter?

                Posted on June 26, 2017October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

                There is overwhelming evidence to support the existence of dark matter, but its existence is still a mystery to physicists. A method called…

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                  The Sun is Hiding Extra Light and Energy from Us!

                  Posted on June 6, 2017December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

                  Our Sun is the nearest star to us. We have worshipped it, bathed in its light, and, of course, studied it. Scientists regularly use our Sun…

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                    Mysterious, Unusual Intergalactic Radio Signal Found

                    Posted on May 8, 2017December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

                    Radio astronomers working with a radio dish telescope detected something a bit unusual. They were seeing a very fast radio burst, faster and…

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