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Cosmology studies the universe at the largest scales, applying the laws of physics over billions of light years and all the way back to the universe's infancy. In dozens of groundbreaking…
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John Wise, Gongjie Li Date
October 22nd, 2019
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How does a wombat produce cube-shaped feces? How long does it take an elephant to urinate? Answering these two questions have landed David Hu two Ig Nobel Prizes, awards given at Harvard University…
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David Hu Date
October 8th, 2019
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At the outskirts of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune, lies an expansive field of icy debris known as the Kuiper belt. The orbits of the individual asteroid-like bodies within the Kuiper…
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Konstantin Batygin Date
April 9th, 2019
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes two breakthrough inventions in laser physics. The first, optical tweezers, allows scientist and engineers to use lasers like the tractor beams of Star Trek…
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Jennifer Curtis, Chandra Raman, Rick Trebino Date
October 23rd, 2018
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The 2016 confirmation of Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves has put the spotlight back on the importance of curvature for the physics of the universe. While the ability of mass to…
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Elisabetta Matsumoto Date
October 15th, 2018
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Are we alone in the universe? The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now well into its fifth decade, and we still haven’t discovered any cosmic company. Could all this mean…
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Seth Shostak biography
Seth Shostak is a Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute. Date
September 24th, 2018
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August 17, 2017, is a milestone date for astrophysics. For the first time, the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories detected signals from the collision of two neutron stars. The powerful…
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Laura Cadonati, Nepomuk Otte, Ignacio Taboada Date
February 13th, 2018
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This presentation will describe an arc in the mathematical/theoretical physics research of the presenter that has traversed concept spaces from equations, to graphical imagery, to coding theory…
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S. James Gates, Jr. Date
March 26th, 2018
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The world of quantum physics appears mysterious, even spooky, and far removed from everyday phenomena we can observe in the world around us. Especially the realm of living organisms was thought to be…
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Thorsten Ritz Date
February 5th, 2018
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For over two millennia, civilizations have pondered over the questions of cosmogenesis. But serious attempts to address them began only with Einstein's discovery of general relativity a century…
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Abhay Ashtekar Date
November 14th, 2017
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The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. Ten new prizes have been awarded every year since 1991, in gala ceremonies at Harvard and MIT, with winners traveling from…
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Marc Abrahams Date
October 11th, 2017
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In 2001 James Kakalios created a Freshman Seminar class at the University of Minnesota entitled: "Everything I Know About Science I Learned from Reading Comic Books." This is a real physics…
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James Kakalios Date
October 2nd, 2017
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A public lecture by Glenn Burns Chief meteorologist, WSB-TVThe destination for the 1960s Apollo missions was the Moon, but the premiere of Star Trek in 1966 got the nation thinking about…
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Glenn Burns Date
April 6th, 2017
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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a next-generation global radio telescope undergoing final design by a collaboration of institutions in 11 countries. One of the largest scientific projects ever…
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Russ Taylor Date
January 23rd, 2017
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The twenty-first century is poised to see dramatic advances in medicine. The rapid after water and oxygen, is the most famous molecule of life known. This is not surprising, as the eye-catching…
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Alek Aksimentiev Date
November 17th, 2016
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The gases, liquids, and solids that humans have known and harnessed since prehistory are human-scale reflections of how atoms and molecules are organized at the atomic scale. This organization is…
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Paul M. Goldbart Date
November 14th, 2016
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