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Deep space astronomy sensor looks into the heart of an atom

Scientists have taken a device originally designed to study massive celestial bodies in the universe and repurposed it to study Earth on a much smaller scale. With this device, they managed to examine the heart of the atom. The team wanted to understand the quantum-scale changes occurring in unstable atoms and realized they had a… Read More »

‘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 »