My encounter with a different and deeply mysterious kind of corona
15 December 2021
While teaching solar physics this year, I was once again drawn in by the mystery of why the sun's corona is so inexplicably hot, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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We’ll never understand the universe while we’re drowning in admin
8 December 2021
Funding cuts are undermining the scientific enterprise, impoverishing our attempts to discover the secrets of nature and share them widely, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
How the Hubble Telescope opened a new window on the cosmos
13 October 2021
The Hubble Space Telescope's journey to the sky was a bumpy one, but it was well worth the effort, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Scientists are often cautious or wrong – and that’s OK
15 September 2021
We like to think that science can give us definitive answers to our questions, but uncertainty is a crucial part of the scientific process, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Why it is so important to protect access to the dark night sky
18 August 2021
The night sky has wowed people since the dawn of time, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to get a good view, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Why the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe
23 June 2021
We once thought the big bang was a single moment, but physicists are now settling on a different version of events, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Why there are still huge mysteries in supernova physics
26 May 2021
The explosions of supernovae are so powerful they can be seen with the naked eye. The physics behind them is harder to uncover, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Why the latest muon measurements are so tantalising for physics
28 April 2021
Recent experiments hint that there may be particles that we have yet to discover, but there could be a different explanation too, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Neutrinos change their identities and we don't know why
31 March 2021
The standard model of particle physics explains many things, but the strange behaviour of neutrinos isn't one of them, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
We may have to rewrite our understanding of gravity
3 March 2021
There is a mismatch between two ways of measuring galactic mass. Dark matter is one way to solve it, but so is rewriting the laws of gravity, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
