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Duets in the College of Arts and Sciences

Married couples working for the Ohio State University, including CCAPP's Faculty Annika Peter and Chris Hirata, are featured sharing their stories in this inspirational book on Scribd. Couples answer…

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Ohio State Astrophysicist Launches Podcast

Paul Sutter, a postdoc at Ohio State's Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, just launched a new podcast called "Ask a Spaceman!" People curious about space, astronomy, and astrophysics can…

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Astronomer David Weinberg Wins Lancelot M. Berkeley Prize

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) awarded David H. Weinberg, the Henry L. Cox Professor in Astronomy and Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, the Lancelot M. Berkeley…

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TEDx -- The Human Narrative

Just two speakers left to reveal for this year's TEDx Ohio State University event on Saturday February 14, 2015, and one of them is Dr. John Beacom! Dr. Beacom is an internationally-known researcher…

SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY ARCHIVAL IMAGE OF A GALAXY SOME 400 MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY

'Assassin' Targets Supernovae in our Neighborhood of the Universe

"Project's success spawns a new effort to study other local sky events. While many astronomical collaborations use powerful telescopes to target individual objects in the distant universe, a new…

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Breakfast of Science Champions- Follow Up Lunch Discussion

CCAPP hosted fifty Starling Middle school students for a followup event to The Breakfast of Science Champions, bringing them back to campus for a Planetarium showing and up close and personal…

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'Monster Black Hole' Discovery Was Wrong — But That's How Science Progresses, Scientists Say"

Todd Thompson, Professor, Vice Chair, Astronomy, "'Monster Black Hole' Discovery Was Wrong — But That's How Science Progresses, Scientists Say," Space.com, Dec. 12

Three teams have analyzed…

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Into the Void -- Sky & Telescope Magazine

The latest issue of Sky & Telescope (Feb 2015), author Marcus Woo walks readers through the science of . . . nothing. Featuring research of postdoc Paul Sutter and his work on cosmic voids.

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The Physics behind the Movie "Interstellar"

CCAPP fellow, Mauricio Bustamante, was interviewed on the subject of the physics of time dilation, black holes, and wormholes behind the recent movie "Interstellar". The interview, in…