Jupiter is the undisputed king of the planets in our solar system! Jupiter is bright and easy to spot from our vantage point on Earth, aided by its massive size and reflective cloud tops and streaks. Jupiter even has moons the size of planets: Ganymede, the largest of them, is larger than Mercury. What’s more, … Read more
Last December, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the experimental confirmation of a quantum phenomenon known for more than 80 years: entanglement. As conceived by Albert Einstein and his collaborators in 1935, quantum objects can be mysteriously related even if they are separated by great distances. But as bizarre as the phenomenon sounds, … Read more
Maria Bon Cranor was like a stone that fell into a pond – it might have slipped its way out of Valhalla or landed on Half Dome. And the ripples that come out of it are the people whose lives have been changed. Cranor moved to Salt Lake with small climbing start-up Black Diamond Equipment … Read more
Cosmologists have spent For decades you’ve struggled to understand why the universe is so amazing. Not only is it smooth and flat as far as we can see, but it’s also expanding at an ever-increasingly slow pace, when naive calculations suggest that – out of the Big Bang – space should have been gravitationally collapsed … Read more
Newswise – Scientists have progressed in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to go back to the beginning of everything we know. Researchers say they can better understand the state of the universe shortly after the Big Bang by learning how these ripples in the fabric of the universe flow … Read more
Louisville, Kentucky (WDRB) — Starting Sunday, Kentucky residents will see the sales tax on more than three dozen new goods and services. While residents will pay less in income tax in 2023, many things are now built into the current 6% sales tax to make up for that loss in state revenue. House bill 8 … Read more
