Bullet Galaxies and Dark MatterOne of the greatest accomplishments in recent astrophysics is the creation of a model for the complete inventory of the Universe. All the observational data tells us with extremely high certainty that ordinary matter (every particle ever detected by every person who ever lived) makes up only one fifth of ...
In addition to Marion O' Leary's career as a scientist, he is also a pianist and composer. His recent memoir, Musical Milestones: My Tale of Science and Music, uses narrative and music to explore how the initial tension between music and science has gradually resolved itself. In The Milestones Cabaret he tells ...
Conversations on Science: A Long Bright Future: The Science of Longevity What if we could live longer, healthier, happier lives? Laura Carstensen is the founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity and a noted expert on socioemotional selectivity theory, a life-span theory of motivation. "Life expectancy is ballooning just as science and technology is on the cusp of solving many ...
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