Space & PhysicsJanuary 1, 2001
Brave New Cosmos
Stories by George Musser
George Musser is a contributing editor at Scientific American and author of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation (2023) and Spooky Action at a Distance (2015), both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Follow him on Mastodon @gmusser@mastodon.social, Bluesky @gmusser.bsky.social and Threads @georgemusserjr@threads.net
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The Hole Shebang
Black holes and galaxies may be entwined from birth
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Gully Gee Whiz
Even as you read this, water might be flowing on Mars
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Cosmic Cartography
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Magnetic Anomalies
What are magnetic fields doing in the middle of nowhere?
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Droids versus Fires
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Boomerang Effect
Balloon data confirm the big bang--and challenge it, too
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Long Tail of the Comet
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Waging a New Kind of War
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What's the Matter?
The prevailing theory for the universe's "missing mass" stumbles
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Whirl-a-Gig
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Between Burb and Burg
The father of New Urbanism, Andres Duany, is reshaping suburbia and the practice of architecture
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BOOM OR BUST
New doubts about whether the universe's expansion is accelerating
Space & PhysicsSeptember 1, 1999
SKEWING THE COSMIC BELL CURVE
Nonrandom features could sink inflation
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WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
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MAKE SCIENCE, NOT WAR
For Sarajevo's scientists, peace is proving as challenging as war
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HERE COME THE SUNS
Stars with planets seem to harbor "heavy" elements
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A HUNDRED BILLION YEARS OF SOLITUDE
Evidence for an accelerating universe continues to pile up
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Revenge of the Wimps
Italian physicists have found the missing dark matter -- or maybe not
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Taming Maxwell's Demon
Random molecular motions can be put to good use
The SciencesJanuary 1, 1999
COSMIC POWER
Superenergetic cosmic rays could reveal the unification of the forces of nature
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Pioneering Gas Leak?
The strange motions of two space probes have mundane explanations--probably
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Inconstant Constants
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