Space & Physics: How accurate is Netflix's "3 Body Problem?"

May 2—This week, the theoretical spacetime structures that could explain multiple quirks of the cosmos. Also, climate change and meteorites don't mix, the growing threat of solar superstorms, and the science of Netflix's "3 Body Problem." Enjoy! -Lee Billings, Senior Editor, Space and Physics

Top Stories

Collapsing Sheets of Spacetime Could Explain Dark Matter and Why the Universe 'Hums' Domain walls, long a divisive topic in physics, may be ideal explanations for some bizarre cosmic quirks Anil Ananthaswamy

China's Moon Atlas Is the Most Detailed Ever Made The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe doubles the resolution of Apollo-era maps and will support the space ambitions of China and other countries Ling Xin; Nature magazine

The Threat of a Solar Superstorm Is Growing—And We're Not Ready Someday an unlucky outburst from our sun could strike Earth and fry most of our electronics—and we've already had some too-close-for-comfort near misses Phil Plait

Mathematicians Explain Why Some Lengths Can't Be Measured Can you assign a size to every object? The surprising answer is no Manon Bischoff

Meteorites in Antarctica Are Getting Harder to Find because of Climate Change As climate change warms the poles, precious Antarctic meteorites will melt their way down out of scientists' reach Meghan Bartels

How Do We Know Anything For Certain? Some practical advice for how to sit, happily, joyfully, with uncertainty—and in doing so, grow and learn from it. Christie Aschwanden

Orion's Twin Rogue Planets Inexplicably Blaze with Intense Radio Waves Researchers don't know how this pair of free-floating planets formed or why it radiates so brightly Joseph Howlett

The Strangely Serious Implications of Math's 'Ham Sandwich Theorem' A simple solution to gerrymandering crumbles when confronted with math's "ham sandwich theorem" Jack Murtagh

The Science of '3 Body Problem': What's Fact and What's Fiction? The hit sci-fi show's adviser and two other researchers discuss its portrayal of scientists and their technologies Sumeet Kulkarni; Nature magazine

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