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More Results From The Large Hadron Collider Point to Entirely New Physics The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment is still insisting there's a flaw in our best model of particle physics.  Previous results comparing the collider's data with what we might expect from the Standard Model threw up a curious discrepancy by around 3 standard deviations, but we needed a lot more information to be confident it truly reflected something new in physics. Newly released data have now pushed us closer to that confidence, putting the results at 3.1 sigma; there's still a 1 in 1,000 possibility that what we're seeing is the result of physics just being messy, and not of a new law or particle.  Article @EverythingScience

NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prepares for First Flight NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. Before the 1.8-kilogram rotorcraft can attempt its first flight, however, both it and its team must meet a series of daunting milestones. Ingenuity remains attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover. On March 21, the rover deployed the guitar case-shaped graphite composite debris shield that protected Ingenuity during landing. The rover currently is in transit to the “airfield” where Ingenuity will attempt to fly. Once deployed, Ingenuity will have 30 Martian days, or sols, (31 Earth days) to conduct its test flight campaign. Press Release | #Mars2020 @EverythingScience

A Star Just Exploded in The Sky, And It Is Easy to Observe Article @EverythingScience

An Astronomer Just Laid Out a Navigation System For Interstellar Space Travel Article @EverythingScience

The Perseverance rover just released the debris shield that protected the Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, during landing. So begins the process to safely deliver it to the surface of the planet. It's stowed sideways, folded up and locked in place, so there’s some reverse origami to do before it can set it down. First Perseverance will be off to the designated “helipad” a couple days drive from here. Photo | #Mars2020 @EverythingScience

As if We Needed It, a Major Review Just Confirmed 5G to Be Completely Safe Article @EverythingScience

A Photographer Spent 12 Years Making This Milky Way Photo Article | View High Quality Version @EverythingScience

NASA's Enormous Moon Rocket Core Just Passed a Grueling Test Article @EverythingScience

Another First: Perseverance Captures the Sounds of Driving on Mars As the Perseverance rover began to make tracks on the surface of Mars, a sensitive microphone it carries scored a first: the bangs, pings, and rattles of the robot’s six wheels as they rolled over Martian terrain. “A lot of people, when they see the images, don’t appreciate that the wheels are metal,” said Vandi Verma, a senior engineer and rover driver at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “When you’re driving with these wheels on rocks, it’s actually very noisy.” Article | #Mars2020 @EverythingScience

🔉Hear that? That’s the sound of Perseverance driving over Martian rocks. This is the first time we’ve captured sounds while driving on Mars. Source | #Mars2020 @EverythingScience

Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station Article @EverythingScience

Deadly Superbug Identified on Sandy Beach in Remote Tropical Archipelago Article @EverythingScience