physics Archives - Miles O'Brien

Stephen Hawking, space genes, acidic coral: this week in science

03.16.18.

Here’s a look back at this week in science, with stories you don’t want to miss. Losing a physics superstar The groundbreaking theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died this week. A man with a sharp mind and a biting wit, he was an inspiration to many scientists… and people in general. The story of how he…
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Particle accelerator enlisted to uncover mummy’s secrets

12.14.17.

On the morning of November 27th, a team of academics carted off the so-called Hibbard mummy from Northwestern University for a 24-hour session with a particle accelerator. The experiment at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory used high energy X-rays to further probe the material composition of various objects embedded in the mummy…
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Witnessing the Collision of Two Neutron Star is a ‘Textbook Changer’. Here’s Why.

10.19.17.

For more, visit PBS NewsHour.
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2017 Nobel Prize in Physics: Gravitational Waves

10.03.17.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics goes to leaders of team that discovered gravitational waves.
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How Planes Really Fly

08.01.17.

What you were taught in high school was likely wrong.
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Why planes can’t fly when it’s too hot, and other ways our civilization can’t take the heat

06.22.17.

…and other ways our civilization can’t take the heat. PBS NewsHour segment, aired 6/21/17.
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