physics

Hubble Telescope clocks a faster rate of cosmic expansion

Posted in Featured, Science on 3rd Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller

The Universe may be expanding up to 9% faster than previously thought.

Mysterious Heavy Ion Beams Above Mars Explained

Posted in Science on 30th May, 2016
by Alex Muller

NASA's latest mission to Mars has uncovered the origins of fast-moving streams of particles high above the planet, flowing against the solar wind.

The Universe is expanding faster than physics can explain

Posted in Featured, Science on 18th Apr, 2016
by Alex Muller

The most precise measurement ever made of the current rate of expansion of the Universe has been achieved by physicists, and theres a problem:

Tim Peake's space seeds on their way to schools

Posted in Science on 14th Apr, 2016
by Alex Muller

Thousands of schools in the UK will be receiving seeds that have been in space. Tim Peake has launched a mass experiment to grow the seeds.

Yuri Milner is spending $100 million to prove out laser pushed nanosails that would reach 5% of lightspeed

Posted in Science on 13th Apr, 2016
by Alex Muller

Milner wants a probe that could travel to Alpha Centauri within a generation, and he's recruited Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking.