The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just proposed rescinding a critically important finding under the Clean Air Act that, according to The Baltimore Sun, “determined that carbon dioxide and ...
Our understanding of the universe may be completely wrong.
One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology is the rate at which the universe is expanding. This can be predicted using the standard model of cosmology, also known as Lambda-cold dark matter (ΛCDM).
We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature—one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose ...
Every time a coffee mug drops, a satellite orbits or an astronaut floats, we are watching the same phenomenon play out under ...
A lot of bad things happen because of the Earth’s gravity. A glass falls and smashes. Someone trips and breaks his or her hip. A plane drops out of the sky and crashes into a fiery ball. If we could ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have been trying to understand the many strange implications of the theory: superpositions, wave-particle duality, and the ...