After 5 years of frequently controversial warnings about possible-but-unlikely asteroid encounters, astronomers have modified the Torino impact hazard scale. They hope the revised scale will let them ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to Veritasium’s exploration of the universe’s immense scale, breaking down the science, distances, and mind bending size of the cosmos. #Space #Science #Physics #Engineering ...

The International Space Station has plenty of gadgets, but not a set of scales – prompting a Dutch student team to develop some itself. Four students from Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of ...

Trying to understand the Universe is often less about seeing it clearly and more about accepting how quickly our intuition ...

Hi folks, tune in every week of 2023 for the best in astronomy from Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher, brought to you by Celestron. Dave’s weekly video series will cover all the latest sky events, ...

The Universe is a vast and complex system. Trying to wrap your head around the distances involved can be quite the astronomical task. So, it can be useful to make analogies and scale models to help us ...

Scale invariance, the absence of fundamental length or mass scales in a theory’s action, plays a pivotal rˆole in modern cosmology. In global formulations it serves as a custodial symmetry that ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-977244.mp3 Albany, NY – In today's Academic Minute, Dr. Ed Stander of SUNY Cobleskill explains ...

In today’s Academic Minute, SUNY Cobleskill's Ed Stander examines why astronomers must consider scale when applying the laws of physics to any object beyond Earth. Stander is a professor of geology, ...