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“I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.” -Wally Schirra

"I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the Universe really consists of." -Fritz Zwicky You very likely know that there are four fundamental forces in the Universe: gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong nuclear forces. While only some particles experience the nuclear and electromagnetic forces, anything with mass or energy -- which is everything we kn...

"People hear the happy story, but the truth is they could all disappear in the blink of an eye. The threats just keep coming." -Todd Steiner It's taken generations of scientists, examining the night sky for millennia, to comprehend the full size and scope of what's out there in the Universe.

"Sometimes I don't want to see the puppeteers, sometimes I just want to see the magic therein, and sometimes I just want to pry open the atoms and know why they spin." -Glen Sutton But it isn't just the atoms -- the minuscule building blocks of matter -- that spin. It's also the individual galaxies, collections of some mind-boggling number (like 1068) of atoms, that spin.

“Supposedly she’d died, but here she was again–somewhat changed, but you couldn’t kill her. Not when the truest part of her hadn’t even been born.” -Denis Johnson Over the past 100 years, our picture of the Universe has changed dramatically, on both the largest scales and the smallest.

“Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.” -Michael E. Mann

Why is there more matter than antimatter in the Universe, and if there is antimatter, where has it all gone?

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." -Marie Curie Were you here last week, when I wrote about MOND and dark matter, and in particular what the supreme failings of MOND are? Apparently, right here on Scienceblogs was a hugely dissenting opinion.

sixth podcast: on the most distant galaxy (so far) in the Universe! Plus, for those of you who enjoy television appearances, I gave a big recap of some of the biggest news in space, science and the Universe this past week on Portland, ORs local television station, KGW. Im getting very excited about my public talk at OMSI on April 18th and then my big appearance at Balticon 50 this upcoming Memorial Day weekend in Baltimore, MD. Hopefully Ill get a chance to see some of you, and perhaps meet a ...