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Nobel Prize in Physics 2019: Hints to Some of Our Deepest Cosmological Questions
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics recognises three researchers who expanded humanity’s horizons on the grandest of scales, contributing to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and our place within it.
Video: The pigeon, the antenna and me with Robert Wilson
Radio astronomer Robert Wilson recalls a pair of pigeons who almost thwarted the discovery of cosmic background radiation.Radio astronomer Robert Wilson recalls a pair of pigeons who almost thwarted the discovery of cosmic background radiation.
What Happened With Cosmic Inflation?
Researchers thought they had found traces of gravitational waves from the earliest moments of the Universe. But they probably saw only dust.Researchers thought they had found traces of gravitational waves from the earliest moments of the Universe. But they probably saw only dust.
Mini Lecture: Cosmology
How has our picture of the universe developed in the history of cosmology?
George Smoot: The explorer of cosmic microwave background radiation is 70
George Smoot from MIT to “The Big Bang Theory”
The Ongoing Issue of Dark Matter
New research data is shining an ever brighter light on the Big Bang – but dark matter remains elusive.
Cosmology opens the Lindau Nobel Meeting
This morning, having rested after the Opening Ceremony at Lindau, and Spain’s fantastic match in the European Cup Final, we have heard wonders from Brian Schmidt – 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the acceleration of the universe – who opened the conference with a very stimulating talk on the Standard Model […]