Saturn’s Northern Storms Cause Disturbances in Its ‘Heartbeat’ Posted on December 31, 2017 by quaezar In News Despite their considerable differences, the equatorial middle atmospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn all exhibit a similar phenomenon: vertical, cyclic patterns of alternating temperatures and wind systems that repeat over […]Read more Saturn’s Northern Storms Cause Disturbances in Its ‘Heartbeat’
Ten people who mattered this year. Posted on December 31, 2017 by quaezar In News When David Liu was an undergraduate student 25 years ago, he wrote a dissertation that his adviser remembers to this day. “It was absolutely word perfect,” says Nobel-prizewinning chemist E. […]Read more Ten people who mattered this year.
Relativity & The Equivalence of Reference Frames Posted on December 31, 2017 by quaezar In News The German physicist Albert Einstein needed complex equations to describe his theory of relativity, but 18-year-old Hillary Diane Andales of the Philippines does just fine with a pick-up truck, a […]Read more Relativity & The Equivalence of Reference Frames
Rocket launches and space missions in 2018 Posted on December 31, 2017 by quaezar In News Next year is already overflowing with exciting missions to space. NASA is launching a new lander to Mars, as well as a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun […]Read more Rocket launches and space missions in 2018