by Richard Easther | Nov 4, 2015 | Cosmology
In March 2014 the BICEP2 experiment reported the detection of tell-tale fingerprints of gravitational waves left over the Big Bang, a result hailed as one of the biggest discoveries of the century. The world-wide cosmology community was stunned; nearly...
by Richard Easther | Oct 10, 2015 | Academia
Today, the astronomy grapevine, Twitter and Facebook were lit up by the revelation that Geoff Marcy, one of the world’s foremost astronomers, had been reprimanded by Berkeley for multiple episodes of sexual harassment, committed over a ten year period....
by Richard Easther | Oct 4, 2015 | Astronomy, Featured, Science in Our Lives
This weekend, my family and I saw The Martian, and we loved it. Amazing movie. Matt Damon plays Mark Watney, an astronaut stranded on Mars who has to figure out how to survive, how to let NASA know he is still alive, and how – if at all – he’s...
by Richard Easther | Sep 8, 2015 | Physics, Science in Our Lives
Until recently, I hadn’t played “computer games” with any regularity since the mid-90s, when Doom and Nethack were procrastination tools for young cosmologists. (Both games are available for the iPhone, by the way – the more things change, the...
by Richard Easther | Jul 29, 2015 | Bad Science
Stories about radical new spacedrives pop up surprisingly often. The latest eruption centers around the so-called EMDrive, and it has spread round the world – this link is from a New Zealand website. This gizmo claims...
