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The day Anthony McCall realized his light sculptures were alive

At the beginning of 1973, light sculptor Anthony McCall was 26 years old and had caused havoc with his first work, Firescape. It was a film of a performance in which white-clad ghosts lit fires across a huge landscape, testing McCall’s belief that a performance isn’t a performance unless it’s documented in some way. “If… Read More »

Surprise gamma ray discovery may shed light on cosmic mystery

Astronomers have discovered an unexpected and unexplained feature outside our Milky Way galaxy that emits high-energy light called gamma rays. The team behind the discovery, including NASA and University of Maryland cosmologist Alexander Kashlinsky, found the gamma ray signal while searching through 13 years of data from NASA’s Fermi Telescope. “This is a completely accidental… Read More »