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Kenneth Chang

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Science reporter, The New York Times. Writes stuff.

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What Physics Knows About Ghostly Neutrinos Muddled by New Experiments

Neutrinos! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/s...

03.12.2025 20:24 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who dares to criticize me?

09.11.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Clue to How Matter Outlasted Antimatter at the Big Bang Is Found

CP violation, baryons, mesons, neutrinos, oh my!

16.07.2025 17:45 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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It Came From Outside Our Solar System, and It Might Be Big

A big interstellar visitor is zipping through the solar system.

02.07.2025 21:49 πŸ‘ 91 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 11
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Vera Rubin Scientists Reveal Telescope’s First Images

Amazing first images from the new Rubin Observatory.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/s...

23.06.2025 16:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sonic Detectives Want to Help SpaceX Listen Up

Something to read now that Elon postponed his "Making life interplanetary" talk until after the Flight 9 Starship launch attempt this evening.

It's not just noise. There's a lot of science in a loud rocket.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/s...

27.05.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What Sonic Detectives Listen for When Rockets Launch

What Sonic Detectives Listen for When Rockets Launch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/s...

26.05.2025 13:39 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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1 Astronaut, Many Cameras and 220 Days of Amazing Images From Space

I always loved interviewing the astronaut Don Pettit, a geek's geek who used his time in space to educate us about science and to wow us with his astonishing photography. A great story from @kchang.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/s...

18.05.2025 18:30 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A New Dinosaur Museum Rises From a Hole in the Ground in New Jersey (Gift Article) The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

Jersey dinos and prehistory in a place you wouldn’t expect. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/s... via @NYTimes

31.03.2025 10:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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After Lunar Disappointments, NASA Hits the Jackpot With Blue Ghost Moon Lander (Gift Article) Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

Thanks! There’s also this article that gets more into the science that the Blue Ghost payloads did on the surface. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/s...

22.03.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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LK-99 Is the Superconductor of the Summer Social media users are excited about what would be a breakthrough in solid state physics, but many experts in the field are cautiously skeptical.

For everyone complaining that mainstream media is ignoring the room-temperature superconductor: For everyone complaining that mainstream media is ignoring the room-temperature superconductor:

03.08.2023 21:36 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How is everyone going to replace Tweetdeck? Can we get a new Nuzzel too?

04.07.2023 01:24 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0