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Astronomy Professor's Research Advances Technology Looking for Signs of Alien Life

(Originally posted to News and Updates from the College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter)

The key to finding extraterrestrial life could lie in clues within the atmospheres of exoplanets. Ji…

2018 Rai Weiss - Exploration of the Universe with Gravitational Waves

Nobel Laureate Professor Rai Weiss from MIT presents the 56th annual Smith Lecture on October 17, 2018.

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Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Knatokie Ford

CCAPP is delighted to co-sponsor the talk "Imposter Syndrome and How You Can Overcome It" with Dr. Knatokie Ford on Wednesday, November 28, 2018. , November 28, 2018

Study Reveals One of Universe's Secret Ingredients for Life

(Originally posted http://phys.org/news)

ASCENT - Neutrino Hunters

What could be more daunting than searching for an invisible particle — one so elusive that physicists had no evidence of its existence until 1956? This is just the kind of challenge that Ohio…

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…