An international team of scholars, including professor Rosemary Wyse, has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way. The results should move astronomers closer […]
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Marc Kamionkowski Receives Prestigious Simons Foundation Award
Professor Marc Kamionkowski, who is developing theories to explain how the universe was formed, is one of six physicists who have been selected to receive a 2014 Simons Foundation Investigator […]
NASA Celebrates Anniversary WMAP Space Mission Launch, Led by Charles Bennett
June 30th marks the 13th anniversary of the launch of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which was conceived to measure the oldest light in the universe. The mission, led […]
Charles Bennett and Tobias Marriage Lead CLASS Group
Charles Bennett and Tobias Marriage are building a telescope meant to look at space in a way no one has before, hoping to probe the blackness between planets, stars and […]
Four JHU Physicists Develop Technique for Measuring the Higgs Boson’s Half-life
Prof. Andrei Gritsan and graduate students Ian Anderson, Ulascan Sarica and Chris Martin recently attempted to measure the Higgs boson’s half-life and determined that it is at least 20 yoctoseconds. […]
JHU Astrophysics Team Builds CLASS Telescope to Study Origins of the Universe
How did it all begin? That is the fundamental question that Johns Hopkins astrophysicists Charles Bennett and Tobias Marriage hope to shed light on with the latest project, the Cosmology […]
Big Bang’s Ripples: Chuck Bennett on NPR
“Penzias and Wilson rocked my world,” says our own Charles Bennett on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Find out more about the work of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, the astronomers who discovered the afterglow of the Big Bang 50 years ago, and its effect on the work of other astronomers. Listen to the story online.
Joseph Silk Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Joseph Silk has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Marc Kamionkowski Shares in Excitement Over Big Bang Breakthrough
A team of observational cosmologists may have found evidence that cosmic inflation occurred a fraction of a second after the Big Bang by detecting a signature pattern that was predicted 18 years ago by our own cosmologist and theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski.
David Kaplan’s “Particle Fever” Featured in The New York Times
“Particle Fever,” a new documentary following scientists at CERN produced by our own David Kaplan, has won accolades at film festivals. Read the article and watch the trailer.