Physical Science

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has announced his company’s intention to create reusable rockets. The goal? A permanent colony on Mars. Musk thinks the proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket [Video] can be modified for lunar and Mars missions—even colonization. At an…
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The International Linear Collider, also known as the ILC, is a linear particle accelerator slated to be built in the late 2010s. It will publish its Technical Design Report in 2012. The host country for the ILC has not yet…
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The dark places between the stars or interstellar space are not empty spaces but filled with interstellar medium which is composed of gas and dust. Gas and dust are the raw materials from which stars are formed. The most abundant…
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Physics is an ever changing world of understanding. One day you may think that the Earth is made up of simple things like stones and water and the next thing you know, objects are really made up of miniscule particles or even infinitely small strings. …
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Charcoal is made up of carbon and ashes produced through drying and removal of volatile residues from animal and vegetation substances. It has been used for many different purposes for centuries and alterations to its constituency and the structure could…
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Thinking narrowly and parochially, and in a short time frame, as humans are wont to do, it may be tempting to think that humans must somehow preserve the current state of the Earth exactly as it is; as if it’s…
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With his recent gloomy comments about Mankind’s future on – and off – Earth, the eminent theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has made much noise, but little sense. Considering how badly we’re screwing things up here, he told an audience at…
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Since the days of the Apollo Lunar missions, NASA has been searching for water on the Moon. They finally confirmed water existed several years ago, but recently the US space agency made a stunning discovery: the Moon has so much…
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A fascinating new study confirms what many scientists have claimed since 1976: NASA’s Viking space probes found life on Mars. The astonishing study, “Complexity Analysis of the Viking Labeled Release Experiments,” published in the International Journal of Aeronautical and Space…
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Once again, Professor Hawking displays keen insight in the future of mankind and the need to escape Earth to guarantee survival of the species.  In reviewing his interview on Big Think, he shows migration to space as being Mankind’s best…
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