Caltech’s Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever and MIT’s Rainer Weiss were the founders of the LIGO experiment that detected gravitational waves. They were just awarded the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics and two of them spoke with Scientific American 's Clara Moskowitz about LIGO and the public's reaction...
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Scientists from numerous disciplines will brainstorm new strategies for measuring "Big G" in July.
Three animations model how strongly magnetized stars produce oddball stellar explosions
The nonprofit Simons Foundation will fund a new observatory to search for signs of stretching in the very early universe
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Nobel physics laureate Arthur McDonald will discuss the surprising characteristics of neutrinos, which can change their identities as they fly through the universe
A new measurement of how fast space is expanding disagrees with estimates based on the early universe, potentially pointing toward a break from the standard model of physics
High-profile physicists and philosophers gathered to debate whether we are real or virtual—and what it means either way
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A flash of light shortly after the detection of gravitational waves could mean that that historic event has an added wrinkle—the black holes that collided may have been born in the same collapsing massive star. ...
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