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SA Space & Physics Vol 4 Issue 4

Space & Physics

August 2021

Volume 4, Issue 4

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Features

A Modest Proposal: Let's Change Earth's Orbit

A Modest Proposal: Let's Change Earth's Orbit

What’s the worst that could happen?

By Maddie Bender and Lee Billings
Experts Weigh In on Pentagon UFO Report

Experts Weigh In on Pentagon UFO Report

The vast majority of examined incidents were not caused by U.S. advanced technology programs, the forthcoming report concludes. So what’s going on?

By Lee Billings and Leonard David

Departments

From the Editor
The Human Framework for Alien Life
News
Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests
The Top Unsolved Questions in Mathematics Remain Mostly Mysterious
First Nuclear Detonation Created 'Impossible' Quasicrystals
Stars Made of Antimatter Might Be Lurking in the Universe
Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Come in Two Distinct Flavors
Opinion
Maybe the Aliens Really Are Here
A Possible Link between 'Oumuamua and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Can Science Survive the Death of the Universe?
Advances
See the Highest-Resolution Atomic Image Ever Captured
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