The unlikely story of neutrino research involves ultrapure water, shifting masses, and two casino-loving physicists
Did you know neutrinos have different flavors?
Paula is a meteorologist who is now a PhD student in Physics. You will notice that her posts are mainly about cosmology, astronomy and atmospheric science.
Did you know neutrinos have different flavors?
It's one of the most beautiful ideas in physics.
Planets in binary, tetranary, octonary systems. Are they possible?
A vacuum is not exactly empty in quantum mechanics terms. It is also a headache for physicists.
A recent study shows that dense regions help stars lose gas quickly, inhibiting star formation.
Solar sailing is a thing.
Eunice Foote was the first to discover that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere.
Nearly 4.4 million radio source were detected by the pan-European telescope LOFAR in almost 144 days.
A word on the Life and career of one of the first dames of modern astronomy
With the Gaia observatory data, we know a recent merge happened in our galaxy.
We can now see the movement of the many galaxies living in nearby superclusters.
There's a lot of chaos in the atmosphere. But that doesn't mean we can't model it.
Not only ashes, but pressure waves affected the atmosphere as well.
At least in the US, some groups are overrepresented in some topics, and some topics are not being taken seriously...
The Asteroid Belt, the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, nd the Oort Cloud are the motherships.
The sonification of astronomical data provides a new way to experience the cosmos.
Earth’s gravity and Sun’s radiation can change its surface.
Cats may or may not be liquid, but researchers are more certain about other states of matter: namely, plasma.
Gravitational waves were detected by laser interferometers, but in 1982, indirect evidence was also popping up.
A horrifying view of 300 illegal rafts mining the Madeira River.