Adam Mann is a freelance journalist with over a decade of experience, specializing in astronomy and physics stories. He has a bachelor's degree in astrophysics from UC Berkeley. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, National Geographic, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Nature, Science, and many other places. He lives in Oakland, California, where he enjoys riding his bike.
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Super space sunblock made from skin pigment could shield astronauts from radiationBetter shielding through chemistry
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The universe's clock might have bigger ticks than we imagineThe tiniest ticks possible
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Astronomers discover South Pole Wall, a gigantic structure stretching 1.4 billion light-years acrossStrands in the intergalactic web
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What is gravity?An attractive topic.
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Schrödinger's cat: The favorite, misunderstood pet of quantum mechanicsTo meow or not to meow?
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To find intelligent alien life, humans may need to start thinking like an extraterrestrialAnthropologist reveals a potentially big flaw in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
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No One Can Agree How Fast Universe Is Expanding. New Measure Makes Things Worse.We just might need new physics to get out of this mess.
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Bright Star Betelgeuse Might Be Harboring a Deep, Dark SecretA new model suggests that the star Betelgeuse committed an act of cannibalism.
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Origin of Deep-Space Radio Flash Discovered, and It's Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Ever SeenMysterious ultra-fast pinpricks of radio energy keep lighting up the night sky and nobody knows why.
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Gravitational-Wave Discovery Reveals Spectacular Crash of Neutron Stars, the 2nd KnownFor the second time ever, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has spotted two ultradense stellar remnants known as neutron stars violently crashing together.
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The 14 Wildest Science Stories from 2019See you next decade, science!
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What Are Irrational Numbers?They're irrational but they're still logical.
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What Is the Hubble Constant?It's an expanding problem.
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Phi: The Golden RatioA golden opportunity for misconceptions.
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What Does It Take to Be a Moon?When is a moon not a moon — and does it matter?
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What Is a Neutron Star?A wealth of energy crammed into a tiny, spinning package.
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Exotic 'Fuzzy' Dark Matter May Have Created Giant Filaments Across the Early UniverseSimulations help distinguish a cosmos containing fuzzy dark matter from one without it.
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Can You Count Past Infinity?How many different types of infinity are there, and can we count past any of them?
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Cosmic Record Holders: The 12 Biggest Objects in the UniverseThings that make you go whoa!
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Deepfake AI: Our Dystopian PresentDon't believe everything you see.
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Why Is It So Hard to Land on the Moon?Despite the fact that humans landed on the moon many times during the Apollo missions half a century ago, doing so remains a tough business.
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Meet the 'Giant Elephant Trunks,' Mysterious Cosmic Structures 10 Times Bigger Than the 'Pillars of Creation'Astronomers have spotted enormous column-shaped structures called Giant Elephant's Trunks in the galaxy
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Scientists Are Building a Real-Life Version of the Starship Enterprise's Life ScannerA novel method relying on biochemistry could provide an unambiguous signal of life on other worlds.
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One Number Shows Something Is Fundamentally Wrong with Our Conception of the UniverseHere's what's going on with the discrepancies in cosmic expansion measurements.
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