Chelsea Whyte
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Senior Editor at New Scientist. Co-host of the Dead Planets Society podcast.
New York, USA
Joined November 2006
NEW: Everyoneās hoping asteroid 2024 YR4 doesnāt hit Earth. It probably wonāt; the odds are 2.1%. But, rather awesomely, thereās a (slim) chance that it hits the Moon instead, with the force of 343 atomic bombs. And weād see it happen! Me @newscientist
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If asteroid 2024 YR4 does smash down on the lunar surface, the explosion might be visible from Earth and would leave a new crater on the near side of the moon
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I like the way this makes me think about crosswords. I do them every day and have never before considered how the words fill in like water oozing through a sponge until it's full https://t.co/MywDYifm4R
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The process of solving a crossword puzzle is mathematically similar to well-studied physical systems ā but one property makes the game unique
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āRain drops on Saturnās moon Titan are the size of tennis balls and fall so slowly you can dodge them ā which gives me an idea for a new sportā @chrislintott at #NewScientistLive
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If you're a science writer/journalist, I'd highly recommend @hvthomson's newsletter (and I'm not just saying that because I'm in the latest edition!) She's currently running a series on the art of pitching your stories to editors... it's invaluable advice
theideasfactory.beehiiv.com
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it's me, i'm the editor
every few weeks an editor will message me something to the effect of "can I talk to you about the nature of reality" and these are the times when I am most aware of how singular my job is
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Exciting job at New Scientist - come and lead our features coverage!
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Ā After many years of connecting brilliant minds with the worldās leading science employers, New Scientist Jobs has now closed . We want to express our heartfelt thanks to every employer, recruiter,...
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This Saturday I will be hosting New Scientist's masterclass on the brain and consciousness in NYC. Snag a ticket below to join me and six other experts in the field as we discuss the latest discoveries in how and why we think. See you there š https://t.co/KTf6q1bf8I
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Join leading neuroscientists and philosophers as they unveil discoveries that are transforming our understanding of the human mind.Ā
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Calling young inventors and creative minds - scientists need your #lego ideas! https://t.co/FtFPsMLLkx
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New Scientist has teamed up with The LEGO Groupās Build the Change programme to launch a competition for young inventors
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It was great fun being a guest on the Dead Planets Society podcast with @chelswhyte and @DownHereOnEarth !
When you have questions about how many moons you could pack into Earth's orbit, who do you call? @sraymond_astro of course! He joined us for the latest episode of Dead Planets Society to figure out how many moons and moonmoons we could have
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Which leads us to the question: At what point does a moonmoonmoonmoonmoon stop being a moon and just become a pebble?
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And how far down the moonmoon ladder can we go? If we want a moon and a moonmoon and a moonmoonmoon, how big would they be? @sraymond_astro says the rule of thumb is that to go down one level, you have to go down in mass by a factor of 100,000.
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So if we have just one regular moon and we want to add moonmoons, how many could we have? @sraymond_astro says the lumpiness of the moon could make it tricky to keep them in orbit so we just need to add thrusters to our moonmoons. Easy peasy.
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So, @sraymond_astro did some simulations for us. He says a ring of moons the size of our moon would be unstable, but 10 moons the size of Ceres would be stable... if they were half the distance of our moon now. "It'd be like [a line of] the Starlink satellites except with moons."
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When you have questions about how many moons you could pack into Earth's orbit, who do you call? @sraymond_astro of course! He joined us for the latest episode of Dead Planets Society to figure out how many moons and moonmoons we could have
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Earth is lagging behind other worlds with its single moon, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society we are giving it more ā and giving those moons moonmoons to orbit them
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I've been saying this forever. TIME IS A LIE:
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The true nature of time has eluded physicists for centuries, but a new theoretical model suggests it may only exist due to entanglement between quantum objects
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Side note: Reading the messages from JUICE (the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) is exactly like texting with @DownHereOnEarth. At points I wondered if our phones had been hacked.
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Our staff recommended their favorite sci-fi books and my contribution is the wonderfully weird not-book 17776 by @jon_bois. I love how much humor and heart we get in the 3 space probes that show us the distant future of football. https://t.co/potR7TgsEX
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We asked New Scientist staff to pick their favourite science fiction books. Here are the results, ranging from 19th-century classics to modern day offerings, and from Octavia E. Butler to Iain M....
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Also, ānine spiders per millilitre of core removedā is the most demented metric Iāve ever heard.
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This chat with @chelswhyte and @DownHereOnEarth for @newscientist and their wild Dead Planets Society podcast was SO much fun. Give it a listen if you fancy destroying Mars. ;)
This week on Dead Planets Society, we take a swing at Mars. We're going after the Red Planet with a comically large magnet -- can we pull out its iron core and shred the planet to bits? @SquigglyVolcano joined us for some destructive shenanigans:
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@ThePlanetaryGuy we destroyed Mars, just for you (and us). What would you fill Mars's empty core with, hmmm? Is it worse than @DownHereOnEarth's suggestion of spiders??
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