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Comet Catalina suggests comets delivered carbon to rocky planets
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School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Chick Woodward lead a study that gives new insight on the source of carbon on planets like Earth and Mars during the early formation of the solar system.
Zooniverse launches Fat Checker project to investigate lipid droplets within cells
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Lucy Fortson, Zooniverse co-founder, Professor and Associate Head of the of the School of Physics and Astronomy says the project will help scientists make headway in big data problems in biology.
Excess x-rays from neutron stars could lead to discovery of new particle
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A team of scientists has found that mysterious x-rays detected from nearby neutron stars may be the first evidence of axions, hypothetical particles that many physicists believe make up dark matter.
Remembering Cecil “Jake” Waddington, 1929-2020
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Emeritus Professor Jake Waddington of the School of Physics and Astronomy passed away on October 1, 2020. He was 91 years old.
Black hole collision may have exploded with light
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Possible light flare observed from small black holes within the disk of a massive black hole.
Zooniverse Experiences Quarantine Surge
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School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Lucy Fortson says that all the increased activity on Zooniverse research problems means that they are getting completed more quickly than expected.
BICEP array installed at South Pole
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Professor Clem Pryke and his group are on their way back to Minnesota from the South Pole in Antarctica after completing installation of the new BICEP Array Telescope.
New Traineeship will Train Researchers at the Intersection of Astrophysics and Data Science
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Vuk Mandic is the principal investigator of a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship designed to train graduate students in data science.
Kelly Receives Grants to Study Extremely Magnified Stars
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Kelly's group hopes to learn about stars and potentially dark matter in the form of black holes in the foreground cluster.
First University of Minnesota-built Small Satellite Launches
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When launched, SOCRATES will be the first small satellite built by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities to go into space.