And the approach they’re arriving at is to push the capsule away, rather than pull it. Boeing was in the lead on this idea, presenting the notion of a pushing system first at the Farnborough ...

Brian Schmidt, along with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter, discovered dark energy in 1998, revealing that the universe's ...

[MUSIC] JOAN CARTAN-HANSEN, HOST: Force is a fancy word for a push or a pull. And motion is the changing of a position or location. Some forces require contact.

Dark energy, discovered by Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter, counteracts gravity by pushing the universe apart, rather than pulling like dark matter. This revelation in 1998 revises our ...

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