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The Milky Way's ancient stars once belonged to other galaxies instead of being the earliest stars born inside the galaxy when it began to form about 10 billion years ago. Many of the Milky Way's ancient stars are remnants of...
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Tokyo institute receives $7.5m endowment from US-based Kavli Foundation
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A UCLA team has used a unique telescope to discover a previously unknown companion to the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 (image below), which is some 12.5 million light years from Earth. The newly discovered dwarf galaxy had escaped even the...
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Matin Durrani reviews Michael Nielsen’s Reinventing Discovery: the New Era of Networked Science
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Matin Durrani reviews Michael Nielsen’s Reinventing Discovery: the New Era of Networked Science
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SciEnts and Sciencelive – two sites that offer slightly different takes on scientific outreach and entertainment
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This is a fantastic, scrollable Universe explorer written in Flash. Learn just how big - and small - everything is. Marvellous.
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Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Science Getaways : Update I’m giving a talk at Eastern Michigan University Feb . 15 Funhouse galaxy Sometimes , I like to think of a photon of light as a car on a road . As the road dips and curves , a car has to follow that path , dipping and curving as well . It might be weird to think of space as curving , but it does . Gravity from massive objects warps space , and a beam of light moving through that curved space curves along with it . This is the principle behind what’s called gravitational lensing A beam of light passing by an object a big galaxy , say , or a cluster of
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I continue to believe that “quantum field theory” is a concept that we physicists don’t do nearly enough to explain to a wider audience. And I’m not going to do it here! But I will link to other people thinking about how to think about quantum field theory. Over on the Google+, I linked to [...]
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Mars' mysterious 3 billion years old Syrtis Major shown above in this Mars Express image was once thought to be a shallow sea. The region, first discovered in 1659 by physicist and astronomer Christaan Huygens, who used its appearance during...
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Before next week’s holiday, we at Symmetry Breaking want to know about your affair with physics. Send us a love letter (or “Dear John” letter) about your research, a playful pun about a physical concept, or a story about a connection you’ve made with a fellow scientist. Post your comments here or send them to scharley@fnal.gov. We will publish our favorites on Feb. 14.
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This Chandra image shows gravitationally-bound, hot gas enveloping the distant galaxy known as 3C294. This X-ray emission is considered a signature for an extremely massive cluster of galaxies – one of the largest known structures in the universe. Astronomers believe...
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Using the APEX telescope, a team of astronomers has found the strongest link so far between the most powerful bursts of star formation in the early Universe, and the most massive galaxies found today. The galaxies, flowering with dramatic starbursts...
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The Hubble space telescope has captured an image of a "barred spiral" galaxy, NGC 1073 in the Cetus constellation, that could hrlp unlock clues to the Milky Way. Most of the known spiral galaxies fall into the"barred" category - defined...
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This image shows central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4631, "The Whale," as seen edge-on from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data (shown in blue and purple) provide the first unambiguous evidence for a...
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"The problem with this (that humans maybe an early bird in the universe) is that it fails to really understand that when life can exist, it exists rapidly and in great profusion. Using our only existence of proof, Earth, we...
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In galaxies that glow most brightly in the infrared, astronomers suspect that frantic star formation is in progress, in episodes called starbursts. The European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) has observed many galaxies which are half as old as...
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"I believe Fermi's paradox to be an arrogant assumption. Say "intelligent" life is rare enough that it only occurs once or twice per galaxy. Sure that makes the universe potentialy teeming with intelligent life.... But that also means that the...
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Editor’s note: This article comes from US LHC intern Amy Dusto, who is currently working as a communicator at CERN. She is introducing LHC Lunch, a series of articles and videos she created while getting to know some of the members of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider from U.S. institutions. The busy cafeteria known [...]
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Intelligent life may be in it's "very young" stage in the observable Universe. Its 200 billion galaxies show a clear potential to continue on as we see them today for hundreds of billions of years, if not much longer. Because...
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Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, and III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky, producing the biggest 3-D color map of the Universe ever made. Now, scientists have used this visual information for the most accurate computation yet of how matter clumped together – from a time when the universe was only half its present age until now.
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A supernova remnant located about 14,700 light years from Earth toward the center of the Milky Way
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Most Fermilab personnel have learned to ignore the ubiquitous booms, hums, growls and crackles of Fermilab machinery. But composer Mason Bates places these sounds center stage in his new piece "Alternative Energy."
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Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2 Constraining thawing quintessence Authors : Gupta , Gaveshna 1 Majumdar , Subhabrata 2 Sen , Anjan . A 1 : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 420, Number 2, 21 February 2012 pp . 1309-1316(8 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We look at observational constraints on the thawing class of scalar field models proposed to explain
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The only laboratory in the United States dedicated entirely to particle physics recently released its plan for the next two decades.
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Scientists on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider just completed the installation of a crucial component for tracking high-energy particle jets. Without it, physicists would be lacking crucial tools to select which events out of billions to store and analyze.
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Daresbury’s high-intensity proton accelerator, called EMMA, gains its technological edge through an accelerator concept nearly abandoned a half century ago.
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For over 55 years the Kurt J Lesker Company has been a leading design, manufacturer and global distributor of vacuum technology solutions for research and production applications.
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Submissions opened today for Google’s second annual science fair. Last year’s winner earned a trip to CERN laboratory in Europe, among other things. This year not one, but two particle physics institutions will contribute to the fair. Engineer Steve Myers, director of accelerators and technology at CERN, and physicist Young-Kee Kim, deputy director of Fermilab, will each participate on the final judging panel. The grand prize winner will receive a trip to visit both labs.
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A galaxy cluster located about 7.2 billion light years from Earth.
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A pulsar found within a supernova remnant in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)
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Perhaps best known in the field of particle physics as the co-author of the Higgs Hunter’s Guide, Jack Gunion has been in the theoretical trenches of the search for the Higgs boson for several decades now. He is a senior professor and leader of the theoretical particle physics group at UC Davis, where he has [...]