Excitement building at Baltimore institute for the James Webb Space Telescope's observations
The image dazzles from a computer screen in the corner of the room: six beams of red-orange light bursting from a luminous Milky Way star.
The image dazzles from a computer screen in the corner of the room: six beams of red-orange light bursting from a luminous Milky Way star.
Space Exploration
Apr 18, 2022
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Just a week after its first images were shown to the world, the James Webb Space Telescope may have found a galaxy that existed 13.5 billion years ago, a scientist who analyzed the data said Wednesday.
Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2022
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Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like breadsticks—and are rarely round, like balls of pizza dough.
Astronomy
Jan 17, 2024
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Justice is supposed to be "blind." But is race blindness always the best way to achieve racial equality? An algorithm to predict recidivism among prison populations is underscoring that debate.
Mathematics
Mar 31, 2022
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Over the past year, Illinois residents have heard troubling stories about a program providing men and women early release from state prisons. Reporters and commentators have written sensational accounts of a secret ...
Social Sciences
Oct 29, 2010
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Passed in 2018, the First Step Act sought to address re-entry challenges for inmates in the federal prison system. The legislation called for developing an assessment tool to identify inmates for release who had the lowest ...
Social Sciences
Apr 30, 2021
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Is artificial intelligence an unprecedented opportunity, or will it rob everyone of jobs and creativity? As we debate on social media (and perhaps use ChatGPT almost daily), generative AIs have also entered the arena of university ...
Economics & Business
May 27, 2024
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Greater use of non-custodial sentences could aid in reducing the rate of re-offending, new UCD research has found.
Social Sciences
Jun 4, 2020
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The impact of swine diseases and other livestock disease outbreaks extends beyond animal sickness and mortality in a highly interconnected world, causing major problems. Following the initial disease outbreak, laboratory ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2020
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Google became the latest company Thursday to release its financial results earlier than scheduled, after which its stock price dropped 9 percent before trading was suspended.
Business
Oct 19, 2012
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