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Antonin Scalia, the staunchly conservative supreme court justice, has died at the age of 79, prompting an immediate political struggle over the future direction of the United States, even as tributes were being paid to honor his service.
We just turned the volume up on the sky. Gravitational waves, the booming echoes of massive objects moving all over the universe, have been detected for the first time by LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, which was recently upgraded.
While investigating non-English words associated with positive emotions and concepts, a British researcher recently discovered 216 foreign words for which there is no English translation.
Although we experience time in one direction—we all get older, we have records of the past but not the future—there’s nothing in the laws of physics that insists time must move forward.
The hardy tardigrade sets a new personal best.
Among the many skills she lists on her no-frills website: “spotting elegance within the chaos.”
Members of an anti-immigration group are patrolling public streets in Finland to look for security threats posed by immigrants.
Its name has always made it sound ominous – and now dark matter could have a menacing role in Earth’s history.