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A Possible Lunar Impact in 2032 Could Spark Days of Meteor Showers on Earth - Gizmodo
The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.
NASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers Missions - NASA (.gov)
These two missions were selected for continued development as part of NASA’s Earth System Explorers Program, which conducts principal investigator-led Earth
The fantasy of starships is no more realistic than magic - Boing Boing
Even at 1/10th light speed, a grain of sand hitting the hull would detonate with nuclear force.
VIP-2 experiment narrows the search for exotic physics beyond the Pauli exclusion principle - Phys.org
The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure and stability of matter. Now an international collaboration of physicists has carried out one of the most stringent experimental tests …
When Earth's magnetic field took its time flipping - Phys.org
Earth’s magnetic field is generated by the churn of its liquid nickel-iron outer core, but it is not a constant feature. Every so often, the magnetic north and south poles swap places in what are called geomagnetic reversals, and the record of these flips is …
A 'crazy' dice proof leads to a new understanding of a fundamental law of physics - Phys.org
Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than describe exactly where each particle is, describes the chance …