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What to know about vaccines in the do-your-own-research era | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
In this photo, a patient receives a vaccine known as the Jynneos vaccine, which is used to combat mpox. Although vaccines…
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Ask Ethan: Is dark energy just leftover momentum from the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
By mapping out the three-dimensional positions of galaxies over a large volume of the Universe, scientists within the DESI collaboration have…
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The six strongest materials on Earth are harder than diamonds | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
Atomic and molecular configurations come in a near-infinite number of possible combinations, but the specific combinations found in any material determine…
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Why does physics break down at the Planck scale? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
The central idea of String Theory is that all the quanta we know of are described by tiny strings that vibrate…
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Ask Ethan: When do stars turn the most mass into energy? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
This Wolf–Rayet star is known as WR 31a, located about 30,000 light-years away in the constellation of Carina. The outer nebula…
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The evidence for biosignatures on K2–18b is flimsy, at best | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
While there are a great number of exoplanets out there that may house life, including exoplanets that are very different from…
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Ask Ethan: What right do we have to colonize other worlds? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
This illustration shows a human colony within a dome on an otherwise uninhabited planet. Humans have often dreamed of colonizing other…
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Science’s value, unlike NASA, cannot be destroyed by politics | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
In July of 1969, humanity took our first steps on the surface of another world: the Moon. This was the crowning…
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Ask Ethan: Couldn’t COVID-19 have originated in a Chinese Lab? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
The SARS virus (orange) has a crown-like structure, meaning that it’s part of the coronavirus family of diseases. The novel coronavirus…