SCIENCE
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The act of ice skating is a miracle of physics | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
The grooves seen on the rink ice after ice skaters have passed over it aren’t due to the ice skates…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #100 — Galaxies in the JWST era | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
This image shows a portion of the CEERS survey’s area, viewed with JWST and with NIRCam imagery. Within this field…
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Will 2023’s Geminids be the best of all-time? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
If you can find clear skies, the Geminids could well put on the most spectacular show of any meteor shower…
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Ask Ethan: Why is there no antigravity? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
From anywhere in the Universe, any object that’s in free-fall will have its trajectory determined by the force of gravity:…
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What was it like when the last antimatter disappeared? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
Bubble chamber tracks from Fermilab, revealing the charge, mass, energy and momentum of the particles and antiparticle created. This recreates…
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