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Astronomer Who Discovered The First Direct Evidence Of Dark Matter Dies

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Astronomer Who Discovered The First Direct Evidence Of Dark Matter Dies

She used galaxies’ rotations to discover the first direct evidence of dark matter in the 1970s while working at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
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Using Supercomputers to Probe the Early Universe

While BURST is not the first computer code to simulate conditions during the first few minutes of cosmological evolution, it can achieve better precision by a few orders of magnitude compared to its predecessors.
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The One Question This Brilliant Physicist Wants People To Stop Asking Her

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The One Question This Brilliant Physicist Wants People To Stop Asking Her

Hint: It involves Larry Summers.
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Dark Matter And The Dinosaurs

Though both dark matter and dinosaurs are independently fascinating, you might reasonably assume that this unseen physical substance and this popular biological icon are entirely unrelated. And this might well be the case. But the Universe is by definition a single entity and in principle its components interact.
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Seeing Dark Matter As The Key To The Universe -- And Human Empathy

Most people mistake their own perspective, shaped by their subjective and limited perception, for the absolute reality of the external world. Questioning this assumption is what advanced our research on dark matter. It is also the only thing that has ever advanced human empathy.
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This Physicist Says Dark Matter May Have Killed Off The Dinosaurs

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This Physicist Says Dark Matter May Have Killed Off The Dinosaurs

We can't see it or feel it. But as Lisa Randall says, dark matter may explain a lot about our universe--including the dinos' demise.
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Our Place in the Cosmos

If our Galaxy truly contains many intelligent civilizations, some of which may be ahead of us by a billion years, how is it possible that we have not seen any sign of them yet? Nobody knows the answer to this so-called "Fermi Paradox," but one of the speculations is that there exists some bottleneck to the emergence of intelligent civilizations, and that this bottleneck could have either been in our past, or we will hit upon it in the future.
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