In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy
The average person likely uses only a fraction of their creative abilities at work, often due to workplace structures, routines and expectations that prioritize efficiency over innovation. Studies suggest that although everyone has creative potential, many business owners and employees operate within constraints that limit creative expression.
Using an ultra-powerful laser, researchers have successfully characterised liquid carbon in the lab for the first time. The experiments offer rare insight into one of the most abundant elements in the universe, which, despite its ubiquity, remains the least understood in its liquid form among stable elements.
Late in 2023, a video shared on Reddit that captured a passenger plane flying over San Francisco went viral because it appeared to be levitating mid-air. While some fighter jets can hover in place, there aren't any commercial planes with the technology to do so. What you see in the video is an optical illusion that has more to do with the concept of reference points and motion than any secret hover mode.
Up to now, humans have only been able to observe four dimensions in the universe – height, length, width and time. But beyond these dimensions, collectively known as 'spacetime', there may be more that we cannot perceive – including the fabled fifth dimension.
Two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, are being closely monitored by flight surgeons after spending nine months in space.
The explosion of SpaceX's rocket Thursday night has sparked fears that NASA's stranded astronauts could be stuck in space for even longer, or worse. SpaceX has been tasked with finally bringing Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore home from the International Space Station (ISS) later this month.
It’s hard not to love the idea of escaping frigid weather and heading somewhere warm, maybe even tropical. That’s the stuff daydreams are made of. But the idea of flying in that weather? That’s less appealing—and maybe even concerning if you’re flying out in a snowstorm or subzero temperatures. Aside from stressing about delays and even cancellations, you might also be worried about flight safety and wonder, What temperature is too cold for planes to fly?
Join us this Sunday at 8.00pm UK time for an exhilarating episode of The Amish Inquisition! This week, we’re thrilled to welcome Physics Professor Michael Pravica as our special guest. Michael has taken the world by storm with his groundbreaking insights, following a feature in Popular Mechanics that delves deep into the enigmas of consciousness and hyperdimensionality.
Foxx and Annie spoke with Professor Michael Pravica about the asteroid that is moving towards earth. He's a professor of physics and astronomy. Will the 2024 YR4 asteroid hit NYC?
Science enthusiasts are closely watching asteroid 2024 YR4, the most hazardous asteroid ever detected.
Could Asteroid 2024 YR4 hit Earth? FOX 9 All Day chats with Michael Pravica, an astrophysicist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, about the potential. The odds of the asteroid hitting Earth did recently go up, again, to 3.1% or a 1-in-32 chance.
In the early 1600s, Galileo Galilee trained a telescope of his own making on Jupiter and spotted its four largest moons. Four centuries later, scientists are still seeking to understand exactly how those moons formed billions of years ago from a swirling disk of gas, dust, and ice that once surrounded the infant planet. Now, a new computer simulation suggests shadows cast by the inner region of that circumplanetary disk (CPD) may have created cold spots in the wispier outer region, creating the physical conditions needed for those materials to congeal into the moons Galileo spotted.