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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is starting to come together. A major component of the telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module...
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An international team of astronomers, including Queen’s University physicist Larry Widrow, have uncovered evidence of a nearby cosmic encounter....
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:: 31 August, 2009
As scientists attempt to learn more about how galaxies evolve, an open question has been whether collisions with our dwarf galactic neighbors will...
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:: 19 August, 2009
The German eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) ) X-ray telescope is to start searching for black holes and dark...
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:: 11 August, 2009
Astronomers recently observed a mysterious flux of particles in the universe, and the hope was born that this may be the first observation of the...
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:: 15 June, 2009
Guido Tonelli, a researcher at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), was elected international coordinator (spokesperson) of one of the...
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:: 26 April, 2009
No one knows for sure what makes up more than 80 percent of the matter in the universe. Though this so-called dark matter, which does not interact...
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:: 19 March, 2009
The Hubble telescope has provided a few more in favor of the existence of dark matter. Astronomers have in fact observed by him dozens of...
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:: 08 February, 2009
Gamma rays at ultra high energies seem to move more easily than expected on cosmological distances. This conundrum suggests that some theorists the...
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:: 05 February, 2009
The precise determination of the neutrino mass is one of the great challenges of theoretical physics and could take us beyond the Standard Model....
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:: 17 November, 2008
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:: 15 November, 2008
The Large Hadron Collider, LHC alias, inaugurated but not yet started, raises many questions and even some fantasies. On the occasion of the Feast...
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:: 07 October, 2008
According to some theories, strange neutrinos, unknown to the standard model could be part of dark matter. Physicists have called them sterile...
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:: 21 September, 2008
A team of astronomers has discovered that one of dwarf galaxies orbiting our Galaxy was a thousand times more massive than reveals its contents...
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:: 13 August, 2008
Rumours are swirling that a European satellite mission may have detected dark matter, the mysterious particles thought to make up as much of 85% of...
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:: 26 July, 2008
While the lab was passed over last year as the site for the nation’s Deep Underground Science and Education Lab, or DUSEL, continuing delays at the...
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:: 15 July, 2008
An international team has finished building the ANTARES telescope, which will search for elusive particles called neutrinos from its base 2.5...
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:: 12 July, 2008
I am not a sports fan, but I could not come up with another way to describe the achievements of the Directorate of Particle Physics and...
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:: 10 July, 2008
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:: 06 May, 2008
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