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‘Stirring’ of energy waves on Earth may hold history of the universe

By measuring how energy waves move through the sky above Earth, scientists have created a way to delve into the 13.8 billion-year history of our universe, starting from “first light.” The team, led by Johns Hopkins University astrophysicists, used an array of microwave telescopes called the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) to map 75%… Read More »