Gravitational distortion of time helps tell modified gravity apart from a dark force
Oct 06, 2023 02:30 am UTC| Science
With his theory of General Relativity in 1915, Albert Einstein revolutionized how we think about our universe. Rather than the cosmos simply providing the room for the planets and stars to orbit each other, space and time...
Oct 06, 2023 02:28 am UTC| Science
The 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio for the discovery and development of particles so tiny they were once thought too small to be possible. They are widely used in television screens, LED lights...
Oct 06, 2023 02:27 am UTC| Science
Each October, the Nobel Prizes celebrate a handful of groundbreaking scientific achievements. And while many of the awarded discoveries revolutionize the field of science, some originate in unconventional places. For...
Consciousness: why a leading theory has been branded 'pseudoscience'
Oct 02, 2023 08:13 am UTC| Science
Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness researchers have signed a letter accusing one of the most popular scientific theories of consciousness the integrated...
Sep 29, 2023 08:50 am UTC| Science
Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space a flash that lasts only instants but puts out as much energy in a millisecond as the Sun does in a few years. The origin of these fast radio...
Temporary carbon storage in forests has climate value — but we need to get the accounting right
Sep 29, 2023 08:49 am UTC| Science
Forests and other natural carbon reservoirs play an important role in slowing and potentially reversing the effects of climate change. But any carbon stored in nature is vulnerable to either natural or human-caused...
Sep 29, 2023 08:49 am UTC| Science
Ive been primarily an experimental chemist the kind of person who goes into the laboratory and mixes and stirs chemicals since the beginning of my career in 1965. Today, and for the past 15 years, Im a full-time...
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