At a traditional stone-laying ceremony outside La Serena, Chile on April 14th, construction officially began of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). This ambitious international astrophysics project is slated to start ...
Astronomy
May 29, 2015
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Compared to other galaxies, the Milky Way is a peaceful place. But it hasn't always been so sleepy. In 2010, a team of scientists working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a pair of "Fermi bubbles" ...
Astronomy
Jan 27, 2015
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The XMASS collaboration, led by Yoichiro Suzuki at the Kavli IPMU, has reported its latest results on the search for warm dark matter. Their results rule out the possibility that super-weakly interacting massive bosonic particles ...
General Physics
Oct 7, 2014
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Last month, scientists announced the first hard evidence for cosmic inflation, the process by which the infant universe swelled from microscopic to cosmic size in an instant. This almost unimaginably fast expansion was first ...
General Physics
Apr 22, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Astronomers are asking volunteers to help them search for "space warps." More commonly known as "gravitational lenses," these are rare systems with very massive galaxies or clusters of galaxies that bend light ...
Astronomy
May 8, 2013
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News broke earlier today that elusive ripples in space-time—known as gravitational waves—have been detected for the first time here on Earth by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO).
General Physics
Feb 11, 2016
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Thanks to the Internet, amateur volunteers known as "citizen scientists" can readily donate their time and effort to science—in fields ranging from medicine to zoology to astrophysics. The astrophysics project Space Warps ...
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2016
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Communities of microorganisms called microbiomes play critical roles in our lives, yet we know very little about them.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 2, 2015
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Imagine creating artificial plants that make gasoline and natural gas using only sunlight. And imagine using those fuels to heat our homes or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining ...
Materials Science
Sep 8, 2015
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From its orbit 930,000 miles above Earth, the Planck space telescope spent more than four years detecting the oldest light in the universe, called the cosmic microwave background. This fossil from the Big Bang fills every ...
Astronomy
Feb 17, 2015
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