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Where Astronomy Meets Data
Brian P. Schmidt, 2011 Nobel Physics Prize winner, discusses his SkyMapper project, which is currently scanning the southern sky...
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Largest-Ever Simulation of the Universe Revealed
The purpose of the simulation is to reproduce the entire evolution of a universe made largely of cold dark...
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Hope in the Age of Man
The Anthropocene does not represent the failure of environmentalism. It is the stage on which a new, more positive...
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LHC Breaks Supersymmetry’s Beauty
Supersymmetry’s elegant mathematical structure was intended to replace the “standard model,” the eminently serviceable but sometimes creaky and in...
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Tantalizing Hints of Elusive Higgs Particle Announced
Two international teams of physicists have found subtle hints of what could be the Higgs boson, a particle whose...
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An Artificial Natural History
Extending the boundaries of the handmade to express abstract ideas, I confront the collision between art and science, directing...
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The Science of Warp
In their new book, Time Travel and Warp Drives, Tufts physics professor Allen Everett and University of Central Connecticut...
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The Big Debate Over the Oldest Life on Earth
Oxford paleontologist Martin Brasier asserts that his fossilized cells are the remains of primitive anaerobic bacteria that lived 3.4...
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What If There Is No Higgs Boson?
The Large Hadron Collider finally has enough data to explore every nook and cranny where the elusive Higgs boson...
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Universal Alignment
The universe has no center and no edge, no special regions tucked in among the galaxies and light. No...