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Supersymmetry Squeezed as Large Hadron Collider Spots Ultra Rare Particle Decay
November 13, 2012 Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, have spotted one of the rarest particle decays ever seen in nature. The result is very damaging to new theories like the extremely ... > full story -
BOSS Quasars Unveil a New Era in the Expansion History of the Universe
November 12, 2012 BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is mapping a huge volume of space to measure the role of dark energy in the evolution of the universe. BOSS is the largest program of the third ... > full story -
Mysteries of the Neutrino: Physicists Investigate the Big Bang Particle
November 9, 2012 Physicists at some of the world's leading research institutes are attempting to unravel the mysteries of a particle that played a role in the creation of the universe. The existence of neutrinos ... > full story -
New Australian Telescope Set to Find 700,000 Galaxies
November 9, 2012 Australia's newest radio telescope is predicted to find an unprecedented 700,000 new galaxies, say scientists planning for CSIRO's next-generation Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder ... > full story -
Star Formation Slumps to 1/30th of Its Peak
November 6, 2012 While parts of the world experience economic hardship, astronomers have found an even bigger slump happening on a cosmic scale. In the largest ever study of its kind, astronomers have established ... > full story -
Hubble Sees an Unexpected Population of Young-Looking Stars
November 2, 2012 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers an impressive view of the center of globular cluster NGC 6362. The image of this spherical collection of stars takes a deeper look at the core of the ... > full story -
NASA'S Fermi Measures Cosmic 'Fog' Produced by Ancient Starlight
November 1, 2012 Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light from all of ... > full story -
Super-Rare, Super-Luminous Supernovae Are Likely Explosion of Universe's Earliest Stars
November 1, 2012 The most-distant, super-luminous supernovae found to date have been observed by an international team of astronomers. The stellar explosions would have occurred at a time when the universe was much ... > full story -
Stars Ancient and Modern?
October 31, 2012 A colorful new view of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 was captured by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory ... > full story -
CALIFA Survey Publishes Intimate Details of 100 Galaxies
October 31, 2012 The Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey (CALIFA survey) has published a first set of data, offering views of one hundred galaxies in the local Universe at an unprecedented level of detail. ... > full story
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