ASPEN The universe is expanding faster than we thought, and Dr. Alex Filippenko is coming to Aspen to provide the details.Filippenko, who was voted best professor at the University of California at ...
Unique pet peeves are a quintessential trait of geniuses. Einstein never wore socks and Jobs only wore turtlenecks. Similarly, linguistic purists shudder at the slightest grammatical laxity. For them, ...
Scientists have identified a type of supernova, or exploding star, that produces unusually large amounts of calcium — enough perhaps to explain the abundance of that element in the universe and in our ...
The darkly dressed hooded man - the one with the silver alien hanging from his neck and the deranged eyeball glasses that blinked on and off - suddenly began hurling objects into the crowd. Milky Ways ...
In the eyes of Alex Filippenko, a renowned astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley, there are two types of science fiction shows: science fiction and extreme science fiction. "A lot ...
"It's a dirty ice ball ... or icy dirt ball." Alex Filippenko knows a thing or two about space. The astrophysicist, recipient of U.S. Professor of the Year and one of the most celebrated teachers at ...
Our universe could have popped into existence 13.7 billion years ago without any divine help whatsoever, researchers say. That may run counter to our instincts, which recoil at the thought of ...
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