CERN scientists simplify space-time in 3 short videos
In this first lesson, Andrew Pontzen and Tom Whyntie go through the basics of space and time individually, using a flip book to illustrate how we can begin to look at them together. Light...
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The very far future of the Universe
Future of humanity Years from now Event 10,000 Most probable estimated lifespan of technological civilization, according to Frank Drake‘s original formulation of the Drake equation. 10,000 If globalization trends lead to panmixia, human genetic...
First evidence of the multiverse?
A curious chilly area of space may have been created when a parallel universe crashed into our own, scientists have suggested, the first evidence that we may be part of a multiverse. In 2015, astrophysicists...
ISS tour
The International Space Station is a large spacecraft. It orbits around Earth. It is a home where astronauts live. The space station is also a science lab. Many countries worked together to build it....
Neil deGrasse Tyson on spicy wings
Star Talk host, Hayden Planetarium director, and astrophysicist extraordinaire Neil deGrasse Tyson has a brilliant knack for breaking down big scientific ideas to the masses. But can he keep his facts straight while battling...
NASA releases free software catalog
NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalog, which offers an extensive portfolio of software products for a wide variety of technical applications, all free of charge to the public, without any royalty or copyright...
7 Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby star discovered
Astronomers have never seen anything like this before: Seven Earth-size alien worlds orbit the same tiny, dim star, and all of them may be capable of supporting life as we know it, a new...
Impact of extraterrestrial contact
Scientific literature and science fiction put forward various models of the ways in which extraterrestrial and human civilizations might interact. Their predictions range widely, from sophisticated civilizations that could advance human civilization in many...
The science of Interstellar
Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the theoretical physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific...
Our technology is too primitive to detect an advanced Alien civilization
Some of the world’s leading astronomers believe aliens, rather than using different radio waves or visible light to signal, may be using an entirely different communication medium such as neutrinos or gravitational waves (ripples...
