In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy

EWTN

Two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, are being closely monitored by flight surgeons after spending nine months in space.

Daily Mail

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.

Reader's Digest

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?

The Amish Inquisition Podcast

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.

WCBSFM: On-Demand Podcast

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?

Keyt

Science enthusiasts are closely watching asteroid 2024 YR4, the most hazardous asteroid ever detected.

Fox 9

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.

Science

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.

Epoch Times

Modern physics assumes a universe with more than four dimensions. This also seems to be indicated by studies in medicine, perinatal psychology and physics involving people at the time of death and after near-death experiences.

Mashable

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our asteroid-sleuthing telescopes are working.

Epoch Health

Multiple lines of research, including medicine, perinatal psychology and physics, suggest that our consciousness links to higher dimensions.

CNN

Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued astronomers since the first detection of the phenomenon in 2007. The enigmatic signals, known as FRBs, release as much energy in less than the blink of an eye as the sun emits in one day.