Month: June 2016
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Finding all the matter in the cosmos — even the invisible stuff
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] “Weak Lensing” Helps Astronomers Map the Mass of the Universe By making galaxies a little bit brighter, it points the way to elusive galaxies and lets us detect that…
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The search for a “theory of everything”
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] All four one and one for all A theory of everything would unite the four forces of nature, but is such a thing possible? For Symmetry Magazine: Over the…
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Blowing up high-mass stars with low-mass neutrinos
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Low-mass particles that make high-mass stars go boom Simulations are key to showing how neutrinos help stars go supernova. For Symmetry Magazine: When some stars much more massive than…
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Everything is a particle, but what does that mean?!
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] What is a “particle”? Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean? For Symmetry Magazine: “Is he a dot or is he a…