SCIENCE

The “atom” lost its original meaning, and that’s good for science | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size Originally, the “atom” was named as such because it was…

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Ask Ethan: Where are we located relative to the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size Artist’s logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe. The Solar…

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The strongest evidence for a Universe before the Big Bang | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size When the entire sky is viewed in a variety of…

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Ask Ethan: What is the true purpose of scientific peer review? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size A reviewer analyzes and evaluates a manuscript based on its…

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The deep mathematics of why 10² + 11² + 12² = 13² + 14² | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size This simple multiplication table shows the first 20 perfect squares…

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Finding organics on Mars means absolutely nothing for life | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size This image of a region within Mars’s Jezero Crater, known…

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Ask Ethan: Where does cosmic dust come from? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size Dark, dusty molecular clouds, like Barnard 59, part of the…

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The argument against the existence of a Theory of Everything | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size One of the most popular efforts towards a Theory of…

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Starts With A Bang podcast #121 — Direct exoplanet imaging | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size This composite image shows a brown dwarf star, center, with…

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NASA to needlessly kill Juno mission to Jupiter this month | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size This image illustrates NASA’s Juno mission, which sought to map…

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