Fast radio bursts are one of the outstanding celestial mysteries. As was written here last month, these super-energetic flashes have been puzzling everyone who cares enough since 2007 when the first one was detected. However, a few which were found…
Month: March 2020
After scientific bets involving Stephen Hawking, now is the turn of bets involving susy.
Dresden Codak is a webcomic described by its creator Aaron Diaz as a “celebration of science, death and human folly”. (Fun fact: when Diaz went on Kickstarter to crowdfund the book edition of the comic, he collected half a million…
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs to friends, are one great recent astrophysical mystery. Another mystery, this time in the subatomic world, is the slightly different behaviour between matter and antimatter. Finally, dust devils.
In an impressive move, an experiment showed that there is actually a gradual transition between different quantum states – only that we hadn’t looked closely enough to see it.