LIGO upgrade signals the hunt for elusive gravitational waves
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A dedication ceremony was held today at the Advanced Laser Gravitational Wave Observatories (Advanced LIGO), a lab tasked with…
A dedication ceremony was held today at the Advanced Laser Gravitational Wave Observatories (Advanced LIGO), a lab tasked with…
It’s tradition for various science media outlets to publish their lists of biggest scientific breakthroughs of the year right…
Come saprete i dati di BICEP che sembrava dovessero confermare l'inflazione cosmica e le onde gravitazionali primordiali hanno…
Paper Title: The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic…
The Big Bang Theory is one of the most robust theories ever made, if not the most. It also has become one of the greatest shows…
Cosmic inflation is the exponential expansion of space in the early universe. In other words, how did the universe go from…
BICEP2 (in the foreground) and the South Pole Telescope (in the background). Credit: Steffen Richter, Harvard UniversityNobel…
Sometimes I feel that it sucks to be a physicist. (Just to clarify – I am not one, and this is my personal opinion, having…
Sometimes I feel that it sucks to be a physicist. (Just to clarify – I am not one, and this is my personal opinion, having…
When Science Gets Ahead Of…
There has been quite a bit of discussion of the realisation that the exciting announcement made by the BICEP2 experiment back…
The big physics news this week was the announcement of the long-awaited results from the Planck missions — and the news is not…
An ex-Nature editor says that peer review is dead? I hope that isn’t what you’d be left thinking from my Comment in the…
by Ben P. Stein, Inside…
Planck telescope and the Cosmic microwave background. ESA and Planck, CC BY In March, scientists working on…
Nuovi dati smentirebbero i risultati ottenuti grazie all'esperimento BICEP: le misurazioni sono da rifare e le nuove…
One of the recent sagas in cosmology began with the BICEP2 press conference announcing evidence of early…
Dust map of the Universe. The region studied by BICEP2 is indicated by the rectangle in the right circle. Credit: Planck…
As you already know, Planck finally came out of the closet. The Monday paper shows that the galactic dust polarization…
Supposed evidence of gravitational waves from the dawn of time may actually be the signature of dust and gas in our own Milky…
Earlier this year, a group of astronomers made a very high-profile announcement: They had, for the first time ever, detected…
There was little need, before, to know exactly how much dust peppers outer space, far from the plane of the Milky Way.
Some time ago BICEP2 published an eprint, which became the scientific news of year. They claimed that cosmic microwave…
Planck, and the image of the sky that it has given us. …
Planck, and the image of the sky that it has given us. …
Dust maps of the sky show cloudy conditions as seen from the North (left) and South (right) Poles at two different wavelengths.
Space dust accounts for at least some of the possible signal of cosmic inflation the BICEP2 experiment announced in March. How…
Because I can see the non-dust pattern with naked eyes...Just three days ago, I wrote a blog post about BICEP2. So I wasn't…
Just opening up a forum thread for discussing the intermediate Planck results (arXiv:1409.5738v1) which show that the BICEP2…
Sorry about the obvious pun in the title. Today's important announcement is of course the long-awaited Planck verdict on the…
Earlier this year — and in a discovery that screamed Nobel Prize — Harvard physicists announced that they'd found evidence of…
Über die BICEP2-Resultate, die im Frühjahr dieses Jahres herauskamen, hatte ich an dieser Stelle ausführlich berichtet (erstes…
Über die BICEP2-Resultate, die im Frühjahr dieses Jahres herauskamen, hatte ich an dieser Stelle ausführlich berichtet (erstes…
I dati del satellite Planck pubblicati di recente in merito ad una analisi preliminare della distribuzione delle polveri…
I dati del satellite Planck pubblicati di recente in merito ad una analisi preliminare della distribuzione delle polveri…
Heute endlich veröffentlichte die Planck-Kollaboration ihre lang erwartete Analyse der Staubverteilung in der Galaxie - und die…
Hoy se ha publicado el artículo más esperado sobre polvo galáctico que emite radiación térmica polarizada. Los resultados del…
This morning’s news, as anticipated, is that the new Planck data renders the BICEP2 measurement of relic gravitational waves…
Well, it’s come about three weeks later than I suggested – you should know that you can never trust anything you read in a blog …
Qualche giorno fa sono stato ospite di Radio3Scienza, in una puntata che verteva sulle difficoltà di comunicare la scienza…
Enligt nya mätningar från det europeiska rymdteleskopet Planck stämmer inte årets största upptäckt om universum. I våras…
It seems that foreground galactic dust could be responsible for all of the signal observed by the BICEP2 team. Two more shoes…
The Planck paper with results on dust in the BICEP2 patch of sky is now out, see here. I’m sure experts will weigh in soon and…
Update Sep 22nd: a Planck paper on polarization is out, suggesting dust could explain the BICEP2 signal – or just 1/2 of it …