Ernest Rutherford and the birth of nuclear physics Dave Darling 2026-09-23 | Ernest Rutherford and the birth of nuclear physics
New insights on the Hand of God Dave Darling 2025-08-23 | In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a curious image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that’s shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes to continue to observe this object. Now, new radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), has been combined with Chandra’s X-ray data to provide a fresh view of this exploded star and its environment, to help understand its peculiar properties and shape.Source: nasa.gov/image-article/x-ray-and-radio-go-hand-in-hand-in-new-imageA paper describing this work, led by Shumeng Zhang of the University of Hong Kong, with co-authors Stephen C.Y. Ng of the University of Hong Kong and Niccolo’ Bucciantini of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, has been published in The Astrophysical Journal and is available at iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf333.
A new kind of supernova Dave Darling 2025-08-18 | Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an explanation for one of the strangest supernovae ever seen. Source: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/ai-helps-astronomers-discover-new-type-supernova
The Cosmic Horseshoe Black Hole Dave Darling 2025-08-16 | Astronomers have discovered one of the most massive black holes ever detected. The cosmic monster is close to the theoretical upper limit of what’s possible in the universe. Source: ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/most-massive-black-hole-ever-discovered-detected
Evidence for a gas giant around Alpha Centauri A Dave Darling 2025-08-09 | Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own Sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system has long been a compelling target in the search for worlds beyond our solar system called exoplanets.Source: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/evidence-found-for-planet-around-closest-sun-like-star
Is dark energy getting weaker? Dave Darling 2025-03-20 | Ever since the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, a battle has been taking place. On the one hand, gravity, acting between all the matter in the universe, has been working to slow down cosmic expansion. On the other, dark energy, which permeates all of space, has been acting in the other direction to make the universe expand faster. For several decades, scientists have widely believed that dark energy must eventually win and doom the universe to eternal expansion. But recent results have challenged this view.
The science behind vampires Dave Darling 2024-10-25 | It being Halloween season, I thought you might enjoy this (scientific) take on a spooky subject - vampires :-).
Journey to Europa Dave Darling 2024-10-23 | On October 14th, the largest planetary spacecraft ever built was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. NASA’s Europa Clipper has begun a 6-year journey to one of the four big moons of Jupiter.
An intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri? Dave Darling 2024-08-04 | Seven stars at the heart of the giant globular cluster Omega Centauri are moving so fast, Hubble observations have shown, that it may be that only an intermediate-mass black hole can keep them from escaping.
The Future Circular Collider: a step closer to reality Dave Darling 2024-02-09 | CERN is pressing ahead with plans to build a colossal new particle collider on the Swiss-French border. The Future Circular Collider (FCC) would be more than 3 times the size of the Large Hadron Collider – the machine used to discover the Higgs boson in 2012.
The fastest computers in the world, year by year Dave Darling 2024-01-18 | The fastest computers in the world, year by year, from 1961 to the present.
LHS 3154b: the planet thats too big for its star Dave Darling 2023-12-04 | Astronomers have found a planet, called LHS 3154b, that seems to be far too big for the star that it’s going around. The planet in question is at least 13 times as massive as Earth but it orbits a star that weighs 9 times less than the Sun. The discovery seems to fly in the face of current theories of planet formation.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
HD110067: the perfect planetary system Dave Darling 2023-11-30 | Astronomers have discovered what they’re describing as the “perfect solar system” – six planets orbiting their star in gravitational lockstep. These half-dozen worlds go around the Sun-like star HD 110067, which lies about 100 light-years away.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Cosmic voids: the loneliest places in the universe Dave Darling 2023-11-28 | Voids are the vast, bubble-like regions between cosmic walls and filaments. They’re the emptiest parts of the universe – although not entirely empty.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
The Amaterasu particle: ultra-high-energy cosmic ray from the void Dave Darling 2023-11-25 | The second most powerful cosmic ray ever found has been detected by a telescope array in the West Desert of Utah. Named the Amaterasu particle after the Sun goddess in Japanese mythology, it had an energy of 2.4 million trillion electronvolts, equivalent to that of a golf ball travelling at 95 miles per hour. Only the Oh-My-God particle, detected 30 years earlier, packed a bigger punch.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Fermions Dave Darling 2023-11-22 | All elementary particles belong to one of two great families: the fermions and the bosons. I dealt with bosons in another video, so this one is devoted to fermions, which were named by Paul Dirac after Enrico Fermi.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Colliers magazine on the conquest of space Dave Darling 2023-11-19 | On March 22nd, 1952, an issue of Collier’s magazine went on sale in the US that sparked widespread public interest in rocketry and space travel. A series of six lavishly-illustrated articles set out a future, based on science not science fiction, in which humans would build a space station in Earth orbit and then journey on to the Moon and Mars. “Man will conquer space soon!” the magazine proclaimed and the American public, energised by what they saw and read, quickly got behind the idea.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Is the Large Hadron Collider good value for money? Dave Darling 2023-11-18 | Should we be spending billions of dollars on projects such as the Large Hadron Collider and the Future Circular Collider that further our knowledge of the universe but may have few immediate practical benefits?My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
The Tasmanian Devil: surprising behaviour of a luminous fast blue optical transient Dave Darling 2023-11-17 | A team of astronomers has reported that an LFBOT known as the Tasmanian Devil flashed brilliantly again in December 2022 and then again and again – a total of 14 times over a 120-day period, each event lasting only minutes. Repeated flashes like this haven’t been seen before in LFBOTs.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
WASP 107b: an extraordinary world where it rains sand Dave Darling 2023-11-16 | WASP-107b is a strange an exotic planets with scorching temperatures, raging winds, an atmosphere that smells of burnt matches, and clouds of silicate sand.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Generation ships: slow-boats to the stars Dave Darling 2023-11-15 | If you don’t have the means to move anywhere near the speed of light and you want to send people to the stars, how can you do it? One way would be in a generation ship – an immense, relatively slow-moving spacecraft, also known as an interstellar ark, aboard which many generations would live and die on a voyage across the light-years.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Edwin Abbott and Flatland Dave Darling 2023-11-14 | Edwin Abbott was an English theologian, educator, and author, born in London in 1838. After a brilliant career at St. John's College, Cambridge, Abbott obtained a fellowship, was master at King Edward's School, Birmingham and at Clifton College, and from 1865 to 1889 was headmaster of the City of London School. During that time he wrote several theological works, a biography of Francis Bacon, and a standard Shakespearian Grammar. But his best-known work is Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, written pseudonymously by A. Square in 1884.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Prime numbers: building blocks of the mathematical universe Dave Darling 2023-11-13 | A prime number is just a natural number that can be divided only by itself and 1, without leaving a remainder. That mightn’t seem like a particularly big deal. But the fact is, prime numbers are the building blocks of the mathematical universe and some of the greatest unsolved mysteries in maths involve primes.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Robert Hutchings Goddard: rocket pioneer Dave Darling 2023-11-13 | Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American physicist and rocket pioneer. Although historians point to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth as being the founders of rocket theory, Goddard, a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, is generally regarded as the father of the practical modern rocket. But it was only after his death that the true value of his work was widely recognised.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
The mystery at the heart of the double slit experiment Dave Darling 2023-11-12 | By the mid-1920s, it was obvious – from the photoelectric effect, the Compton effect, and in other ways – that when light interacts with matter it does so as if it were made of tiny bullets of energy called photons. The rest of the time it goes about as if it were smeared out in the form of a wave. Apparently, light had an identity crisis, and nowhere was that crisis more evident than in an updated version of an experiment carried out long before quantum theory came on the scene.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Leptons Dave Darling 2023-11-11 | Fundamental particles of matter come in two forms: leptons and quarks. A big difference between them is that, unlike quarks, leptons don’t take part in strong interactions. They’re subject to gravity, the weak force, and, if they’re charged, electromagnetism, but they don’t experience the strong force.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Red dwarfs and their planets Dave Darling 2023-11-10 | Red dwarfs are the smallest, dimmest, coolest, and most common, type of main-sequence star in the universe. Main sequence means that they’re still making heat and light by fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores. The characteristic properties of red dwarfs stem from their low mass, which ranges from less than a tenth to about a half that of the Sun.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Lucys first asteroid flyby reveals something no one was expecting Dave Darling 2023-11-09 | NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, launched on October 16th, 2021, is on a 12-year mission to explore 11 different asteroids. Its ultimate goal is to study 8 Jupiter Trojans – asteroids that move in the same orbit as Jupiter around the Sun. But along the way it will also target 3 other asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Distant black hole is surprisingly massive Dave Darling 2023-11-09 | One of the most distant supermassive black holes ever seen has been discovered using a combination of NASA space telescopes – the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Bosons Dave Darling 2023-11-08 | Scientists currently recognise two main types of particles in the universe: bosons and fermions. And the property that distinguishes between them is spin – not spin in the ordinary sense but something that’s analogous to it in quantum mechanics. Bosons have a spin that’s an integer multiple of quantum units of angular momentum: 0, 1, 2, and so on. Fermions have an odd half-integer amount of spin, for example, ½ and 3/2.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Quarks: a quick introduction Dave Darling 2023-11-07 | All matter is composed of two types of fundamental particles: quarks and leptons. Quarks are the building blocks of hadrons, the two best-known examples of which are protons and neutrons. Hadrons that are made of 3 quarks, such as protons and neutrons, are known as baryons. Hadrons that are made of 2 quarks – a quark and an antiquark – are called mesons.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Kepler-385: An extraordinary 7-planet system Dave Darling 2023-11-06 | A new catalog of around 4,400 exoplanet candidates and 700 multi-planet systems has been created from observations made by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope before its retirement in 2018. Among the highlights of the catalog is an extraordinary system of seven planets that orbit around a Sun-like star called Kepler-385.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
The Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs Dave Darling 2023-11-05 | American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs is best known as the creator of Tarzan of the Apes. Beginning in 1914 he wrote a couple of dozen books about the hero of the jungle and sold more than 25 million copies. But his first published piece had a very different setting.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
NERVA: Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application Dave Darling 2023-11-04 | NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application) started in 1961 with the goal of developing a nuclear-powered rocket engine that could take a crewed spacecraft to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
The loudest plane ever: The Thunderscreech Dave Darling 2023-11-04 | A jet airliner taking off can be tremendously loud if you’re less than 100 metres away. But, strange as it may seem, the loudest aircraft ever built was propeller-driven. It was the XF-84H, nicknamed the ‘Thunderscreech’, an experimental plane derived from the F-84 Thunderstreak and manufactured by Republic Aviation for the US Air Force in the early 1950s.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Dwarf planets Dave Darling 2023-11-03 | In 2006, at the end of a meeting of the International Astronomical Union, several hundred astronomers came up with a new way of classifying objects in the Solar System. Henceforth, there’d be planets, dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Planet Theia and the origin of the Moon Dave Darling 2023-11-03 | Four and a half billion years ago, so the theory goes, a Mars-sized planet slammed into the embryonic Earth. In the giant collision, the Moon was formed. The remains of the alien intruder world may lie deep below our feet.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Do we need to be worried about invading aliens? Dave Darling 2023-11-02 | One of the great themes of science fiction, from H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds to Independence Day is the invasion of Earth by smart, powerful aliens bent on taking over our planet. It’s a great theme because it’s terrifying, perfect for dramatic development and acts of heroism, and just about believable.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
The proton Dave Darling 2023-11-02 | Protons are one of the building blocks of atoms along with neutrons and electrons. One or more protons are present in the nucleus of every atom, providing the attractive central electrostatic force that binds the atomic electrons.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Its the end of the world - again! Dave Darling 2023-11-01 | We live in a quiet backwater of an ordinary, middle-aged spiral galaxy, circling one of the more sedate kinds of stars, on the surface of a stunningly life-friendly planet. Nature has dealt us a very kind hand. But that doesn’t mean we’re completely safe or that can afford to be complacent. In fact, if some folk are to be believed, disaster looms around every corner.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Pulsars: beacons of space Dave Darling 2023-10-23 | Pulsars are the lighthouses of the Galaxy. When the first one was discovered, in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell at Cambridge, astronomers jokingly called it LGM for “little green men”. But it was soon realised that pulsars are a natural phenomenon – fast-spinning, highly magnetised neutron stars that send out regular directional pulses of radiation as they whirl around.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Joseph Walker and the X-15 Dave Darling 2023-10-22 | Of all the dozens of X-planes that have been built only one, the X-15, has achieved a similar, legendary status to the X-1 in which Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. The X-15 was also a rocket-plane but instead of maxing out at 2½ times the speed of sound, it eventually reached more than Mach 6 and flew so high that for minutes at a stretch, on some missions, it wasn’t an aircraft but a spacecraft plunging through the near-airless void 50 or 60 miles above the ground.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Von Neumann probes: Where are they all? Dave Darling 2023-10-21 | In the 1960s the Hungarian-born American mathematician John von Neumann wrote about machines that could make exact copies of themselves. He envisaged a kind of robot equipped with a computer brain that could be programmed to reproduce itself from raw materials taken from its surroundings. It wasn’t long before some people suggested that von Neumann machines, in the form of robot spacecraft, would be a great way for us to explore the Galaxy.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
intermediate mass black holes Dave Darling 2023-10-20 | Most black holes that astronomers have found are of two types: formed from a single heavyweight star after its outer parts blew away in a supernova, or the supermassive variety found at the centre of galaxies. But there’s another kind, weighing roughly 100 to thousands of times our Sun's mass. These are intermediate-mass black holes and finding them is no easy matter.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
A new most-distant and most-powerful fast radio burst Dave Darling 2023-10-20 | Astronomers have found the most distant and one of the most powerful fast radio bursts, or FRBs, to date. It lies almost 8 billion light-years away and in less than a thousandth of a second gave off more energy than the Sun does in 30 years.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Electromagnetism: one of the fundamental forces in nature Dave Darling 2023-10-19 | Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces in nature. I’ve already made videos on the other three – gravity, the strong force and the weak force, if you’d like to check these out. Electromagnetism is the second strongest of this quartet after the strong force. Two features of it make it unique: it’s the only force that acts between electric charges and it’s the only force that can be both attractive and repulsive.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Exoplanet WASP 17b Dave Darling 2023-10-19 | WASP-17b is one of the most unusual exoplanets that astronomers have come across to date. It orbits just 7 million kilometres from the surface of its star – 20 times closer than Earth is to the Sun – and completes an orbit every 3.7 days.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
The neutron Dave Darling 2023-10-18 | Today we know that neutrons are one of the constituents of atoms along with protons and electrons. The existence of a neutral particle that would result from the capture of an electron by a proton was first proposed in 1920 by Ernest Rutherford. Eight years later an experiment was carried out in Germany that marked the first step in the search for this new particle.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
Why is the jet emerging from the core of galaxy M87 spawning novae? Dave Darling 2023-10-17 | Astronomers have found evidence that high-speed gas in the jet emerging from the core of M87 is causing stars in the inner part of the galaxy to go nova – though why this should be still isn’t clear.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
The mystery of Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients Dave Darling 2023-10-16 | Only 7 of them are known and the most recently discovered one has added to the mystery of what they are. I’m talking about Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients or LFBOTs. As the name suggests, they’re bursts of extraordinarily bright light, mostly in the blue part of the spectrum. They resemble supernovae but are 10 to 100 times brighter and more short-lived, rising and fading in a matter of days rather than weeks or months.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
The weak force Dave Darling 2023-10-15 | The weak force, also known as the weak nuclear force, is one of the four fundamental forces of nature, along with gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong force. It’s the second weakest of these, after gravity and affects all particles of matter, which are known as fermions, but not force-carrying particles or bosons.My other YouTube channels:The Science Fiction Rock Experience (the music show I produce):youtube.com/@ScienceFictionRockExperienceDiscover Maths (with Juan Medina):youtube.com/@discovermathsScience World (with Emrah Polat):youtube.com/@ScienceWorld1My website:daviddarling.info
