Graphic art by Margaret Cartee Highly diverse: 20% women. Lampooning this graduate program advertisement lightened the hilarious tragedy of our thermodynamics course – a 17% female proportion. Out of a fairly diverse introductory calculus physics class, I persisted as the only female physics major over the last four years. Let
The gamma-ray burst most recently observed is a momentous event that is not hypothesised to reoccur for the next several lifetimes. It has inherited the nickname BOAT, brightest of all time, and rightfully so due to its evident intensity that has been observed by astronomers. A gamma-ray burst is an
Has the moon once split? In the Islamic faith, Muslims believe that Prophet Muhammad once split the moon into two halves when questioned about his ability to perform a miracle. While no research has ever backed up the claim that the moon was once split, what we do know is
Throughout history, the sun, moon, and stars have been humanity’s companions. The next time you are outside, look up. The lights that shine down upon you now are the same that have guided sailors, mystified fortune tellers, and inspired populations. Those celestial bodies, both incomprehensible and oddly familiar, are embraced
Imagine how expensive your flights would be if airplanes flew as rarely as space shuttles or Mars rovers. How would our society differ if only the opulent could afford this luxury? Many of us have probably heard of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’s campaigns towards consumer space travel through images
What would you do if you just returned from deep space only to find the world in the next century? Many dystopian science fiction narratives use the traveler-out-of-time scenario where a person from one time period moves through time into another era through some sort of scientific or magical plot
