Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

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Three different 3D protein structures are displayed on a light grid-patterned background, each occupying a separate quadrant in the image.

Gaming cancer: How video games and citizen science could help cure disease

By inviting players to tackle real scientific problems, games can offer a hand in solving medicine’s toughest challenges.

A visual simulation of two objects orbiting and merging, distorting a red-orange grid representing spacetime—illustrating gravitational waves once thought to be the worst prediction in science.

Starts With A Bang

Ask Ethan: Can we fix the worst prediction in all of science?

The measured value of the cosmological constant is 120 orders of magnitude smaller than what’s predicted. How can this paradox be resolved?

Starts With A Bang

Jupiter endangers Earth, and may have extincted the dinosaurs

65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth. Not only did Jupiter not stop it, but it most likely caused the impact itself.

Two colorful, semi-transparent spheres, one blue and one red, represent a possible top quark bound state, toponium, surrounded by small particles inside a cloudy, circular enclosure.

Starts With A Bang

The top quark isn’t a loner after all: “toponium” is real!

Can the top quark, the shortest-lived particle of all, bind with anything else? Yes it can! New results at the LHC demonstrate toponium exists.

Black and white image of a star field with one bright object in the center, indicated by a red arrow, believed to be the third interstellar object detected passing through our solar system.

Starts With A Bang

Humanity’s third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, is arriving now

First ‘Oumuamua, then Borisov, and now ATLAS have shown us that interstellar interlopers are real. Here’s what the newest one teaches us.

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