Celestial boondocks: Study supports the idea we live in a void
Cosmologically speaking, the Milky Way and its immediate neighborhood are in the boondocks.
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British mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles gets Abel math prize
British mathematician Sir Andrew J. Wiles has won the Abel Prize in math for cracking a centuries-old hypothesis.
Mathematics
Mar 15, 2016
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New method solves 40 year-old mystery on the size of shadowy galaxies
Using the world's largest telescopes, researchers have discovered ancient cold gas clouds larger than galaxies in the early Universe. The discovery was announced today at a press conference at the 227th meeting of the American ...
Astronomy
Jan 6, 2016
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'Assassin' targets supernovae in our neighborhood of the universe
While many astronomical collaborations use powerful telescopes to target individual objects in the distant universe, a new project at The Ohio State University is doing something radically different: using small telescopes ...
Astronomy
Jan 8, 2015
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Studies of how fluids move underground could help with cleaner energy production and water supplies
As a child in the Galicia region of northwestern Spain, Ruben Juanes was already fascinated by science, and that interest was fostered by a science teacher who taught him in the fifth and sixth grades.
General Physics
Sep 17, 2013
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A learner's guide to the universe: Astronomer Loeb homes in on 'cosmic roots' in textbook
Theoretical astrophysicist Avi Loeb has a pretty good idea about how the universe's first galaxies formed, but he can't wait to see if his theories are right.
Astronomy
Mar 1, 2013
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Dark energy alternatives to Einstein are running out of room
(Phys.org)—Research by University of Arizona astronomy professor Rodger Thompson finds that a popular alternative to Albert Einstein's theory for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe does not fit newly obtained ...
General Physics
Jan 9, 2013
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The farthest supernova yet for measuring cosmic history
In 2004 the Supernova Cosmology Project based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a tantalizing supernova that appeared to be almost 10 billion light-years distant. But researchers ...
Astronomy
Jan 9, 2013
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College students and credit card debt—parents at fault?
Parents need to be good role models to help their children make sensible financial decisions, according to Adam Hancock and his team, from East Carolina University in the US. Their work highlights that parents who argue about ...
Economics & Business
Oct 18, 2012
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New map of the universe reveals its history for the past six-billion years
The scientists of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including astronomers at Penn State, have produced a new map of the universe that is in full color, covers more than one quarter of the entire sky, and is full of so ...
Astronomy
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