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The UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy has established a research program in modern cosmology – an entirely new field of research at the university. The new program builds upon the ...
NSF Program Director Position AvailableThe Physics Division at the National Science Foundation is seeking qualified applicants to fill the position of Program Director for Theoretical Physics in ...
Out of its past troubles, the model may emerge not only vindicated, but also strengthened, and cosmology will be a science that is both precise and accurate.
Physicist Fred Kavli and the Kavli Foundation pledged $7.5 million to establish the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. The Institute will foster collaboration between faculty ...
A raging debate over the Hubble constant suggests that our standard model of cosmology might be wrong.
Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.
Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.
JIM PEEBLES is widely known as the architect of modern cosmology – and its nice-guy-in-chief. Awarding his half-share of the 2019 Nobel prize for physics, the committee said he “took on the ...