4,850 feet beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, there’s an underground particle accelerator in a former gold mine. Here, with a poem, his doctoral thesis begins: “Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, …
Haze has settled over large swaths of North America from fires, an issue expected to continue into hottest months. Air quality considered “unhealthy” stretched from Quebec province in Canada to the US state of Michigan in the west, Connecticut in the east, and Virginia to the south, according to a real-time map maintained by the US Environmental Protection Agency. In …
The story so far: Many physicists strongly believe that the entire visible part of the universe forms only 5% of all matter in it. Dark matter is made up of particles that do not have a charge — which means they do not interact through electromagnetic interactions. This is because interactions from other known particles could drown out signals of …
A dent present on the protective magnetic shield over the surface of Earth is widening and has raised concerns among scientists. WHAT HAS CHANGED WITH SAA The South Atlantic Anomaly has existed on the Earth’s magnetic field for years. Nasa’s Earth scientists are now monitoring the changes to predict future changes and prepare for the future challenges this weak spot …
