All Eyes on Alpha Centauri

Click Here to Read: All Eyes on Alpha Centauri: Takeaways from this week’s Breakthrough Discuss meeting By Dirk Schulze-Makuch on the AIRSPACEMAG.COM website on APRIL 14, 2021.
The two bright stars are (left) Alpha Centauri and (right) Beta Centauri, both binaries. The faint red star in the center of the red circle, at right angles to both and south-east of Alpha is Proxima Centauri, intensely red, smaller in size, weaker in brightness and a distant third element in a triple star system with the main close pair forming Alpha Centauri. Taken with Canon 85mm f/1.8 lens with 11 frames stacked, each frame exposed 30 seconds.  Image: Skatebiker Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

New experiment hints that a particle breaks the known laws of physics

Click Here to Read: New experiment hints that a particle breaks the known laws of physics: A heavier sibling of an electron, known as a muon, is challenging the “Standard Model” of all the particles in the universe. BY Meihael Greshko on the National Geographic website onApril 7, 2021|
One-loop MSSM corrections to the g-2 anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon. Image: User A1 at en.wikipedia  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

China proposes teaching masculinity to boys as state is alarmed by changing gender roles

Click Here to Read: China proposes teaching masculinity to boys as state is alarmed by changing gender roles: Boys in China traditionally are expected to be strong leaders, get good grades and excel at sports. But the gender balance in China is changing.
The rising economic status of women has upended traditional ideas of masculinity in China.  By Zixu Wang, Xin Chen and Caroline Radnofsky on the NBC news website on March 5, 2021.
Ying Yang.  Image: Gregory Maxwell. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons