Month: December 2015
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Nuclear pasta and neutron stars
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] The Inside of a Neutron Star Looks Spookily Familiar Exotic ultra-compressed matter can look like pasta, among other things For Nautilus: Hot fluids of neutrons that flow without friction,…
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Don’t pull up stakes for the asteroid-mining gold rush
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Is Space Becoming a Gold Mine? A new law grants private companies ownership over the materials they extract from asteroids or the Moon. But don’t call it a gold…