Ross Andersen

1 week ago | theatlantic.com | Ross Andersen

Adam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received it. Earlier this year, Riess, who is now in his early 50s, pulled a graph-paper notebook off a bookshelf in his office at Johns Hopkins University so that I could see the yellowing page on which he’d made his famous calculations. He told me how these pen scratches led to a new theory of the universe. And then he told me why he now thinks that theory might be wrong.

3 weeks ago | telex.hu | Ross Andersen

Az „olo” szín nincs rajta a Pantone színskálán. Kizárólag egy Észak-Kaliforniában található, szűkös, 10 négyzetméteres helyiségben tapasztalható meg. A Berkeley-i Kaliforniai Egyetem laboratóriumában lévő kis szobában egy méretes lencsékből és egyéb alkatrészekből álló szerkezet áll egy asztalon. Aki látni szeretné az olo színt, annak oda kell mennie az asztalhoz, rá kell harapnia egy fogvédőre, és igyekeznie kell minél stabilabban tartani a fejét.

3 weeks ago | adn.com | Ross Andersen

When Elon Musk’s engineers bundled a batch of prototype satellites into a rocket’s nose cone six years ago, there were fewer than 2,000 functional satellites in Earth’s orbit. Many more would soon be on the way: All through the pandemic, and the years that followed, Musk’s company, SpaceX, kept launching them. More than 7,000 of his satellites now surround Earth like a cloud of gnats.

1 month ago | benton.org | Ross Andersen

When Elon Musk’s engineers bundled a batch of prototype satellites into a rocket’s nose cone six years ago, there were fewer than 2,000 functional satellites in Earth’s orbit. Many more would soon be on the way: More than 7,000 of his satellites now surround Earth like a cloud of gnats. This fleet, which works to provide space-based internet service to the ground, dwarfs those of all other private companies and nation-states put together.

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Ross Andersen

When Elon Musk’s engineers bundled a batch of prototype satellites into a rocket’s nose cone six years ago, there were fewer than 2,000 functional satellites in Earth’s orbit. Many more would soon be on the way: All through the pandemic, and the years that followed, Musk’s company, SpaceX, kept launching them. More than 7,000 of his satellites now surround Earth like a cloud of gnats.