by Emmanuel Fonseca & Steph Taylor Physics & Astronomy subject editors On October 6, 2015, the winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics were announced. Canada’s Arthur Macdonald and Japan’s Takaaki Kajita would receive the award for their contributions to understanding tiny particles called neutrinos. Neutrinos (an Italian word for “little neutral one”) are […]
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Fly Me to the (Super) Moon
by Emmanuel Fonseca Physics & Astronomy subject editor The Internet has been buzzing for the past few weeks about several major events involving the moon. Some of my non-astronomy friends were pretty confused after being inundated with conflicting online posts about both a lunar eclipse and a “super moon” happening this weekend. So which one […]