SCIENCE
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Following the scientific consensus: how to be “the least wrong” | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
Planet Earth, as viewed by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft as it departed from our location, clearly shows the spheroidal nature of…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #115 — Dwarf galaxies in isolation | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
However, while most of the dwarf galaxies we know of are found as satellites around larger, more massive galaxies, they…
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Confirmed at last: exoplanets found around nearest single star | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This illustration shows Barnard’s star, with the correct size and temperature/color, as orbited by the four recently confirmed exoplanets around…
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Surprising stars reveal second-closest supermassive black hole | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This illustration shows how binary stars interact with a supermassive black hole to create a population of hypervelocity stars that…
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Ask Ethan: Does the multiverse explain our fundamental constants? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
We normally conceive of our Universe as having emerged from a preceding period of cosmic inflation, with our Big Bang…
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The truth about banning “dangerous gain-of-function” research | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This illustration shows a coronavirus molecule with a string of RNA inside. Although a SARS-CoV-2 virus might have a genome…
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Ask Ethan: Does mass or energy increase near the speed of light? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This moving, zipping star field appears to depict an ultra-relativistic motion through space, extremely close to the speed of light.…
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How charges and masses create the Universe around us | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
In the very early Universe, there were tremendous numbers of quarks, leptons, antiquarks, and antileptons of all species. After only…
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Ask Ethan: Could dark matter be “normal stuff” we can’t see? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
The full-field image of MACS J0717.5+3745 shows many thousands of galaxies in four separate sub-clusters within the large cluster. The…
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These 7 anti-science myths threaten modern-day society | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2025
In February of 2025, noted anti-vaccine, anti-fluoride, and anti-GMO crusader Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., despite the objection of qualified scientists…
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