How you can help NASA (even if you failed math)

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NASA notes that the event challenge and not a contest. Image: NASA   Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practicesContinue Reading

Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons?

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An illustration of a SpaceX and xAI concept for a mass drive on the moon. (Image credit: SpaceX/xAI) A new report stresses the strategic and security implications of placing mass drivers on the moon  — essentially electromagnetic catapults   — by arguing that these launchers could serve as valuable first strike weapons systems. According to theContinue Reading

Is Dark Energy Unnecessary? Mathematicians Challenge Standard Cosmological Model of Universe

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Mathematicians from University College London and the University of California, Davis, have published a mathematical proof that the Universe’s accelerating expansion can be explained without dark energy, dealing a serious blow to the Lambda-cold dark matter model. The post Is Dark Energy Unnecessary? Mathematicians Challenge Standard Cosmological Model of Universe appeared first on Sci.News: BreakingContinue Reading