#104: Gene variant for extreme old age, gravitational waves and dark matter, what fruit flies tell us about nature and nurture
The world, the universe and us
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Is It Possible to Stop Aging?
Gravitational waves are ripples in space time caused by the motion of massive objects. The big news is something new that we might be able to find using gravitational waves, called a gravitational glint. This is expected to happen when gravitational waves pass over another massive as they're propagating through space and then that object slows down part of the wave. And in theory, we could use that echo to learn about the object that slowed down the wave. But i don't know if this particular method is going to help find dark matter, because it could be really hard to dig out glintsand analyze what those glints mean. Yeand we are in the new era of gravitational wave astronomy
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