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What's keeping us from discovering dark matter?

Numerous experiments have been dedicated to the search for dark matter, but the strange substance remains frustratingly elusive. Annika Peter, assistant professor, physics,…

Bringing Dark Energy into the Light

Paul Sutter, community outreach coordinator for the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, explains one of the biggest puzzles in modern physics.

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CCAPP Fellow Michael Troxel's DES Cosmology Paper Selected for Commentary

One year ago the Dark Energy Survey (DES) released the initial cosmological results from its first year of data using a combined analysis of weak gravitational lensing and the clustering of large…

Professor John Beacom Featured in Viral Video

In Prof. John Beacom’s introductory physics course, a student made a short video of him doing a lecture demonstration. This was uploaded to a Chinese social-media site, where it went viral, so far…

A Chemical History of the Universe

Astronomy professor Jennifer Johnson created a version of the periodic table that color codes the elements by their cosmic origins.

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John Beacom named Henry L. Cox Professor of Physics and Astronomy

John Beacom, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) has been named the second…

Neutrino Hunters

(Originally posted to https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news-events Autumn 2018 edition)

Hints of weird particles from space may defy physicists’ standard model

Dangling from a balloon high above Antarctica, a particle detector has spotted something that standard physics is at a loss to explain.

John Beacom, ASC Distinguished…

Astronomy, ASC Tech, collaborate to classify 412,000 variable stars

A new paper from the Department of Astronomy, in collaboration with ASC Technology Services, provides uniform classification of 412,000 known variable stars (brightness as seen from Earth…