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Alexey Boyarsky Identified a Trace of Dark Matter That Could Signify a New Particle
Feb 27, 2014The Leiden astrophysicist Alexey Boyarsky and his fellow researchers may have identified a trace of dark matter that could signify a new particle: the sterile neutrino. A research group in Harvard reported a very similar signal just a few ...
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Researchers Detected Stream of Stars in One of Andromeda Galaxy's Outer Satellite Galaxies
Feb 23, 2014The Andromeda Galaxy is surrounded by a swarm of small satellite galaxies. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have detected a stream of stars in one of the Andromeda Galaxy's outer satellite galaxies, a dwarf galaxy ...
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One of The Most Ambitious Missions in The History of Space Goes Into High-Risk Mode
Jan 16, 2014One of the most ambitious missions in the history of space goes into high-risk mode on Monday when Europe rouses a comet-chasing probe from years of hibernation. "The most important alarm clock in the Solar System" will end the scout ...
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Asteroid Mining Firms Have Begun Launching a Counterattack on The Academic Findings
Jan 16, 2014Asteroid mining's prospects as a trillion-dollar industry could be mildly tarnished by a new Harvard study that found few space rocks near Earth worth mining. But asteroid mining firms have already begun launching a counterattack on the ...
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Being an Astrophysicist From Someone Who Claims to Have "Proven Einstein Wrong"
Jan 15, 2014One of the benefits of being an astrophysicist is your weekly email from someone who claims to have "proven Einstein wrong". These either contain no mathematical equations and use phrases such as "it is obvious that..", or they are page ...
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The Possible Fate of Big Bird Is Now Known
Dec 25, 2012After last night's presidential debate, the possible fate of Big Bird is now known. But the rival candidates gave no insight into the possible fate of exascale systems, the next generation of supercomputers. In the 90-minute debate ...
Tags: Big Bird, exascale systems, supercomputers