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Benincasa named 2021 President's Postdoctoral Scholar
Nine postdoctoral scholars in the College of Arts and Sciences were named 2021 President’s Postdoctoral Scholars, supported by the Office of the President. Recipients receive a minimum of $50,000…
Kochanek and Tai Asks Why
Chris Kochanek, professor of astronomy, talks about his current research focusing on "massive stars behaving badly" on the podcast Tai Asks Why.
New data locates hundreds of millions of objects throughout space
A longstanding project designed to study dark energy throughout the cosmos has released a second data set showing 300 million objects throughout space, one of the largest data releases of its kind…
David Weinberg Awarded the 2021 Dannie Heineman Prize
The Heineman Prize committee selected two recipients this year, David and Robert Lupton, “for their essential contributions to facilitating, guiding, and participating in transformative science…
Cosmic Eruption Shows Black Hole Ripping At Star
An international group of scientists who study space have discovered an astronomical “Old Faithful” – an eruption of light flashing about once every 114 days on a nearly predictable schedule. The…
Price Prize winner Carl Fields selected by Forbes to be on 30 under 30 in Science
: Price Prize winner Carl Fields was selected by Forbes to be on their list of 30 under 30 in Science, in fact one of a few “featured” people. The writeup for him notes, “He won a 2020 Price Prize…
Popular Science: We still don't really know what's inside the sun—but that could change very soon
When the sun warms your face, it’s shooting more than just sunbeams at your skin. Neutrinos—ghostly particles with just a trace of mass—come along for the ride. Many trillions of them enter your…
A new way to detect subatomic particles from deep space
Steven Prohira is a neutrino hunter. The postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State's Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics is principal investigator on a new project, the NSF-funded Radar…
Temperature has increased about 10-fold over the last 10 billion years
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The universe is getting hotter, a new study has found.
The study, published Oct. 13 in The Astrophysical Journal, probed the thermal history of the universe over the last…