The end of supersymmetry?
Seems that way. A massive study has found no evidence of the particles that would underlay the theory’s existence, and
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Harnessing El Nino in 1000AD
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Elon Musk says SpaceX will attempt to recover Super Heavy rocket by catching it with launch tower
This is ballsy – it’s using the fishing rod to catch the hook as it flies back towards you for
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A Beamed Sail to the Sun’s Gravity Focus
Like many of the space technology articles, it’s solving a unique problem in an interesting thought exercise, but without any
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Archaeologists excavate ancient Roman takeout counter at Pompeii
Fast food is clearly a very old technology. And, amusingly, does not appear to have changed much since the ancient
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Gravity Gets a Tweak
We appear to have just started to prove that our understanding of gravity is slightly flawed, and that gravity is
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Anthropodermic Bibliopegy
It’s a new term on me too, but it means the practice of binding books in human skin. Comes with
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Seasteading Tries Again
And like before, it’s going to fail again. As an idea, seasteading is romantic, and has a visual appeal. In
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Stellar Flares as an Aid to Life Detection
It’s interesting to discover that we now have a method for detecting the chemical signature of life by using the
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