Topic: Astrophysics
Africa, the birthplace of the human species, has long been a magnet for archaeologists. Now South Africa wants to draw leading astrophysicists to the continent as well with the world's most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an instrument that ...
A trio of astronomers won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for discovering that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, a finding that implies that the cosmos will end in frozen nothingness.The three are Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the ...
Poor old Einstein has had a rough few days.It all began with an experiment last week that bizarrely found sub-atomic particles called neutrinos appear to move faster than the speed of light.The finding was a shock.The speed of light was enshrined in ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Unraveling one of the great enigmas of the visible universe, why it is made up largely of matter, will be the target of a ground-breaking research project kicked off on Wednesday at a meeting of leading physicists from eight ...
Scientists said Sunday they had trapped and stored antihydrogen atoms for a record 16 minutes, a stunning technical feat that promises deeper insights into the mysteries of antimatter.Particles and anti-particles annihilate each other in a small flash of energy when they collide.At ...
A massive radio telescope in rural West Virginia has begun listening for signs of alien life on 86 possible Earth-like planets, US astronomers said Friday.The giant dish began this week pointing toward each of the 86 planets -- culled from a list ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Everything scientists now know about the cosmos, from the Big Bang to black holes, has come from measurements of light rays.But Mother Nature speaks in particles too, and until now their instruments have been largely deaf to ...
"These filaments are integral to the evolution of galaxy clusters -- among the biggest gravitationally bound objects in the universe -- as well as the creation of new generations of stars," said Louise Edwards, a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of ...
"in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1, KJV). Genesis 1:1 fits nicely with the cosmological argument (also known as the First Cause argument and the Kalam Cosmological Argument), which goes essentially like this: While the cosmological argument ...
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