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Science Sundays: Particle Physics: New Research Frontiers
Particle physics, the quest to understand the smallest objects in the universe, depends on operating powerful colliders, like those at Fermilab and CERN. Joe Lykken outlines deep…
AAAS names four Ohio State faculty as 2017 Fellows
Four Ohio State faculty were chosen to receive one of the most prestigious awards given to U.S. scientists. Elected by their peers as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of…
ASC student receives President’s Prize for science accessibility initiatives
Anna Voelker has a dream to make science more accessible, specifically for people living with physical and cognitive disabilities. Now, she is one step closer to making that dream…
Anna Voelker Receives President's Prize
Anna Voelker, a science communication and accessibility major, is one of two Ohio State graduating seniors awarded this year’s President’s Prize for her work toward making astronomy more…
Cosmos curious? Ask a spaceman
Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist who, in addition to studying things like cosmic voids and galaxy clusters, enjoys helping those of us who aren’t astrophysicists understand how…
On the Existence of Black Holes
By all accounts, black holes should not exist, and for a long time, they were shrugged off as mere mathematical artifacts — an annoying bug in the otherwise elegant machinery of general relativity…
Mapping the Invisible Universe
Researchers from the Dark Energy Survey, headed by physics professor Klaus Honscheid, have reached a new milestone mapping the growth of the universe from its infancy to present day. The new…
Time travel isn't possible…or is it?
We have complete freedom of movement within space, but we cannot avoid our future. Time seems to have an "arrow," whereas the spatial dimensions are ambidextrous. Given the unity between time and…
The Great American Eclipse: Aug. 21
The solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21 will be the first to travel coast to coast across the continental United States since 1918. Ohio State astronomers will be spread all along the path of…