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Three new physics experiments could revamp the standard model 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 21, 2018
Physicists build giant machines to study tiny particles

By David Aragorn
New Horizons Spots Its Next Flyby Target: Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2018
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next target, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, more than four months ahead of its 2019 close encounter.

By David Aragorn
Staring at the sun: Solar Orbiter telescopes will get closest view yet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2018
European Space Agency’s seven-year, €1bn mission will investigate the effects of the sun on satellite technology

By David Aragorn
The TESS space telescope has spotted its first exoplanet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2018
Pi Men c’s size and mass suggest it may have lots of water

By David Aragorn
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Spies Its Target Asteroid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2018
After an almost two-year journey through space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) caught its first glimpse of Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid whose makeup may record the earliest history of our Solar System, last week and began the final approach toward the asteroid. Using its multipurpose PolyCam camera, the spacecraft obtained the image of Bennu from a distance of 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km), or almost six times the distance between the Earth and Moon.

By David Aragorn
High-tech ‘skins’ turn everyday objects into robots 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 20, 2018
Changing how the skins wrap around a tube can achieve different types of motion

By David Aragorn
Our Solar System’s Largest Asteroid Is Covered in Ice Volcanoes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 19, 2018
We usually associate volcanoes with extreme heat. But new results demonstrate that the Solar System’s largest asteroid, Ceres, is covered in volcanoes that have spewed ice throughout their history.

By David Aragorn
Possible Site of Atlantis Found Using Satellite Imagery 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- September 19, 2018
Thanks to Plato’s account of the lost city and Google Earth, new visual and arithmetic clues suggest that the mythical city of Atlantis may have been hiding in plain sight the entire time, in rather an unlikely place.

By David Aragorn
‘Optical rocket’ created with intense laser light 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 19, 2018
Force of light boosts electrons close to speed of light

By David Aragorn
Lunar Swirls May Be Produced by Strongly Magnetized Lava 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 19, 2018
Planetary researchers from Rutgers University and the University of California, Berkeley may have solved the mystery behind lunar swirls, wispy bright regions scattered on the Moon’s surface. The solution hints at the dynamism of the Moon’s ancient past as a place with volcanic activity and an internally generated magnetic field.

By David Aragorn