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Walkabout the Galaxy

Feb 15, 2023

Where would you go and what would you bring with you if you could explore any object in the universe? Our cosmologist Jim Cooney wants to look for aliens underneath Europa's icy shell. This shell's complicated fractures may owe something to a new form of ice discovered in a delightfully simple experiment. Further out,...


Feb 1, 2023

Neutrinos are slippery little buggers, and a new experiment is tightening the net to pin down their itsy-bitsy mass. Closer to home, the Earth's core is a complicated system with changing rates of rotation. We also take a look at the peculiar rings of a distant cometary body, Chariklo, thanks to a new observation by...