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Is There Another Higgs Boson Out There?
Dr. Pierre Savard (Photo: University of Toronto) Tired, and rushing to meet a looming deadline, Dr. Pierre Savard and his colleagues didn’t realize what they’d found when they first came across a...
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Telescope Survey Reveals Universe’s Dark Secrets
This small portion of a deep space image taken by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telscope Legacy Survey reveals thousands of galaxies yet to be explored. (Image: © CFHT/Coelum/Terapix/AstrOmatic) Scientists...
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Hubble Spots Farthest Supernova Yet
Hubble Space Telescope view of supernova SN UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson. The small box in the image pinpoints SN Wilson’s host galaxy in the survey conducted by the CANDELS+CLASH Supernova Project....
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Simple Theory May Explain Dark Matter
Artist’s impression of the Milky Way galaxy. The blue halo of material surrounding the galaxy indicates the expected distribution of dark matter. (ESO/Calçada) Scientists at Vanderbilt University...
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Excessive Gamma Rays at Milky Way’s Center Hint at Dark Matter
Artist rendering of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. (NASA) Scientists believe high-energy gamma rays emanating from the center of our Milky Way are being produced by dark matter, the mysterious...
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Science Scanner: Curiosity’s Mars Selfie, Jurassic Caterpillar & an X-ray of...
Odd X-ray Signal Might be Sign of Dark Matter Astronomers found mysterious X-ray signal in 73 galaxy clusters including Perseus, shown here. Inside the image is a plot of X-ray intensity as a function...
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Science Scanner: Mars Rover Sets Off-Earth Distance Record; Infants Smell...
The gold line shows Opportunity’s path of travel on Mars. The start point, its Eagle Crater landing site, is on the top left. And, its current location after traveling a record-setting 40.25 km is...
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New Research Reveals Ominous Future for Universe
Data provided by Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others was used to study the nature of dark energy. (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) A team of British and Italian scientists recently conducted research that...
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Science Scanner: Stars Younger than Thought, E-Cigarettes Not Really a...
A visualization of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, as detected by ESA’s Planck satellite over the entire sky. ((C) ESA and the Planck Collaboration) Stars Are Younger than...
View ArticleUltra-Dark Galaxies; Exoplanet With Comet-Like Tail; New Dinosaur Species
Astronomers Find Huge Treasure Trove of Ultra-Dark Galaxies U.S. and Japanese researchers have discovered 854 “ultra dark galaxies” located within the Coma Cluster, about 321 million light years from...
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Astronomers Find Massive Star Making Galaxy Cluster
SpARCS1049+56 is a massive cluster of galaxies that creates hundreds of new stars each year. It’s pictured here in this multi-wavelength view from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes....
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India OK’s New Observatory; Japan’s X-Ray Telescope; Long-Lasting Eclipse...
Aerial view of LIGO Observatory in Hanford, Washington (LIGO Laboratory) LIGO Scientific Collaboration to Build New Observatory in India Just days (2/11/16) after announcing the first detection of...
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Our Expanding Universe; LISA Pathfinder is a Success; Drugs in Waterways
A simulated view of the entire observable universe, approximately 93 billion light years or 28 billion parsecs in diameter. (Azcolvin429 via Creative Commons) How Fast is the Universe Expanding? The...
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They’re Sure It Exists, But Scientists Still Unable to Detect Dark Matter
Artist impression of the Milky Way. The blue halo of material surrounding the galaxy indicates the expected distribution of the mysterious dark matter. (ESO/L. Calçada) Back in 1933, Caltech astronomer...
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Dark Matter Galaxy; Making Bland Tasty; Ouchless Insulin
The dark galaxy Dragonfly 44. The image on the left is a wide view of the galaxy and a close-up on the right. The massive galaxy consists almost entirely of Dark Matter. (Pieter Van Dokkum, Roberto...
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Science Scanner: Stars Younger than Thought, E-Cigarettes Not Really a...
A visualization of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, as detected by ESA’s Planck satellite over the entire sky. ((C) ESA and the Planck Collaboration) Stars Are Younger than...
View ArticleUltra-Dark Galaxies; Exoplanet With Comet-Like Tail; New Dinosaur Species
Astronomers Find Huge Treasure Trove of Ultra-Dark Galaxies U.S. and Japanese researchers have discovered 854 “ultra dark galaxies” located within the Coma Cluster, about 321 million light years from...
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Astronomers Find Massive Star Making Galaxy Cluster
SpARCS1049+56 is a massive cluster of galaxies that creates hundreds of new stars each year. It’s pictured here in this multi-wavelength view from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes....
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India OK’s New Observatory; Japan’s X-Ray Telescope; Long-Lasting Eclipse...
Aerial view of LIGO Observatory in Hanford, Washington (LIGO Laboratory) LIGO Scientific Collaboration to Build New Observatory in India Just days (2/11/16) after announcing the first detection of...
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Our Expanding Universe; LISA Pathfinder is a Success; Drugs in Waterways
A simulated view of the entire observable universe, approximately 93 billion light years or 28 billion parsecs in diameter. (Azcolvin429 via Creative Commons) How Fast is the Universe Expanding? The...
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