Cosmology
We’ve Discovered Inflation! Now What?
Days like these make being an astrophysicist interesting. On the one hand, there is the annoucement of BICEP2 that the…
That Moment When the “Father of Inflation” Learns of the Detection of Gravitational Waves
Andrei Linde, a professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford University, is one of the main authors of the…
Landmark Discovery: New Results Provide Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation
Astronomers have announced Nobel Prize-worthy evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of spacetime — providing the first…
How Will the Universe End?
The evidence that the Universe began with the Big Bang is very compelling. 13.8 billion years ago, the entire Universe…
Why “The Big Bang” Is a Terrible Name
Have a discussion about the origins of the Universe and, ere long, someone will inevitably use the term "the Big…
Black Holes: Monsters of the Cosmos
It's a new Symphony of Science video from melodysheep (aka John D. Boswell). It features Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss,…
New 3-D Map Shows Large Scale Structures in the Universe 9 Billion Years Ago
I remember seeing the Hubble 3-D IMAX movie in 2010 and literally gasping when the view pulled back from zooming…
Earth’s Gold Came From Colliding Stars
Are you wearing a gold ring? Or perhaps gold-plated earrings? Maybe you have some gold fillings in your teeth... for…
Book Review: Weird Life: The Search for Life That is Very, Very Different from Our Own
Think about Dr. Seuss’ classic book If I Ran The Zoo. Young Gerald McGrew has an active imagination creating heretofore…
Researchers May Have Finally Detected a Dark Matter Particle
Dark matter: it's invisible, it's elusive, it's controversial... and it's everywhere -- in the Universe, yes, but especially in the…