Ian O'Neill
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Antimatter Angst: The Universe Shouldn't ExistThe universe shouldn't exist, according to new ultra-precise measurements of anti-protons.
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Was the Origin of Life a Fluke? Or Was It Physics?Physical systems that are out of equilibrium may naturally produce self-replicating chemical reactions, one of the necessary steps in the origin of life.
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How a Total Solar Eclipse Helped Prove Einstein Right About RelativityBy Ian O'Neill Published
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NASA Awards $100,000 in 3D-Printing Habitat CompetitionThe first printing segment of NASA's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is now complete, and the U.S. space agency has awarded $100,000 to the winning two teams.
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Astronomers to Search for Alien Life at Nearby 'Habitable' ExoplanetThe Wolf 1061 star system is only 14 light-years away and a team of astronomers are doing the groundwork to begin looking for signs of extraterrestrial biology in one of its planet's atmospheres.
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Cassini Gets Up Close and Personal With Saturn's 'Wavemaker' Moon DaphnisAs NASA's Saturn mission skims the gas giant's rings, it's seeing incredible detail in the interactions between ring particles and a tiny moon's gravity.
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If an Asteroid Hits the Ocean, Does It Make a Tsunami? (Probably Not)A complex computer simulation has modeled the impact of an asteroid in the ocean and the results may surprise you.
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Dying Star Offers Glimpse of Earth's Doomsday in 5B YearsL2 Puppis is a dying star that once resembled our sun and it is showing us the stellar inferno that lies in store for our planet.
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Ancient Space Dust Washes Up in Rooftop GuttersMicroscopic particles from space have been collecting in the gutters of Paris, Oslo and Berlin, revealing incredible insights to the mysteries of our solar system.
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Pooping in a Spacesuit Is As Complicated As It SoundsNASA needs you to rise to the Space Poop Challenge and help its astronauts go where no astronaut has gone before.
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'UFO' Seen in Live Space Station Video Is Just FluffAnother strange light has been seen hanging over Earth from orbit ... but it's not your run-of-the-mill UFO.
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Kepler's 'Alien Megastructure' Star Just Got Weirder"Tabby's Star" has dramatically dimmed and we don't know why.
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SETI Eavesdrops on Nearby Star in Smart Alien HuntAstronomers have used a powerful radio telescope to eavesdrop on a nearby star system in the hope of hearing the faint radio whisper of an alien civilization.
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LHC Atom Smasher Opens Quantum Physics FloodgatesAs it restarts its mission to discover weird and exotic things about our universe, the Large Hadron Collider is about to become a firehose of quantum data.
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Alien 'Wow!' Signal Could Soon be ExplainedWas the 1977 'Wow!' signal communications from an alien civilization? Or was it interference from a passing comet? In 2017, we may finally have an answer.
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Large-ish Meteor Hits Earth... But No One NoticesIf a space rock hits the atmosphere, and no one is around to hear it, does the tabloid press still report it as an Earth-shattering event?
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Gravitational Waves vs. Gravity Waves: Know the Difference!Gravity waves, gravitational waves and primordial gravitational waves... what do they mean? Is there a difference?
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Turbulent Magnetic 'Perfect Storm' Triggers HypernovasAstrophysicists have created a computer model that simulates a dying stars' magnetic guts before generating a cosmic monster.
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Has Kepler Discovered an Alien Megastructure?A mysterious swirl of objects spotted around a distant star has captured the interest of astronomers who look for advanced alien civilizations.
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Our Universe: It's the 'Simplest' Thing We KnowOur universe is actually really simple, it's just our cosmological theories that are getting needlessly complex, argues one of the world's leading theoretical physicists.
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'Eiffel Tower' Prominence Towers Over The SunAn astrophotographer spotted a beautifully-formed solar prominence that looks like a giant version of the famous Parisian landmark.
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Hubble Image Inspires White House to Ponder Our CosmosOn Wednesday, President Barack Obama mentioned something curious in a tweet — it was a message about the cosmos.
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Why Time Can't Go Backward: Physicists ExplainHow does time stop everything from happening at once? What mechanism drives time forward, but not backward?
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Wormhole Time Travel 'Possible' (If You're a Photon)By Ian O'Neill Published
