History of the Universe News

The simplest inflationary models have passed an exacting test with data from the Planck Satellite

WykenSeagrave — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:38:56 +0000

181 scientists have worked on the paper issued on 20 March which, following extensive analysis of the data obtained from the Planck Satellite, have concluded that: The simplest inflationary models have passed an exacting test with the Planck data The full … Continue reading →

NASA calculates Universe is 13.8 billion years old, 100 million years older than previous estimates

WykenSeagrave — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:17:46 +0000

The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins. Planck is a European Space Agency mission. NASA contributed mission-enabling … Continue reading →

CERN confirm that “a” Higgs Boson has been found

WykenSeagrave — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:32:58 +0000

It looks very much like we have “a” Higgs boson No more Higgs-like, Higgs-ish or even Higgsy boson. The CMS and ATLAS collaborations, the two large experiments operating at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, have now gathered sufficient … Continue reading →

Tweet your Question about Planck Cosmology Findings to NASA TV News Conference March 21

WykenSeagrave — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:57:18 +0000

NASA will host a news conference at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT) Thursday, March 21, to discuss the first cosmology results from Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation. The briefing will be held at NASA … Continue reading →

Get a free Citizen of the Universe Badge showing your Citizenship Grade!

WykenSeagrave — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:49:22 +0000

You live in the universe, but do you really understand what the universe is like, where you are within it, or how you got here? If you can show that you understand the basic facts about where you are and … Continue reading →

One Day Universe – The History of the Universe in a Day

WykenSeagrave — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:38:49 +0000

One Day Universe on 21 September 2013 will be a 13.7-hour celebration of science from the Big Bang to the Anthropocene, one hour for each billion years of history. It will involve over 20 speakers presenting Big History to an … Continue reading →

Quadruple DNA helix discovered in human cells – life – 20 January 2013 – New Scientist

WykenSeagrave — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:59:12 +0000

Sixty years after James Watson and Francis Crick established that DNA forms a double helix, a quadruple-stranded DNA helix has turned up. Quadruple helices that intertwine four, rather than two, DNA strands had been made in the laboratory, but were … Continue reading →

Genome Reveals Comb Jellies’ Ancient Origin: Scientific American

WykenSeagrave — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:13:15 +0000

Animals evolved gradually, from the lowly sponge to the menagerie of tentacled, winged and brainy creatures that inhabit Earth today. This idea makes such intuitive sense that biologists are now stunned by genome-sequencing data suggesting that the sponges were preceded … Continue reading →

Almost all sun-like stars have a planetary system

WykenSeagrave — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:54:18 +0000

“Almost all sun-like stars have a planetary system,” said Francois Fressin, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who has been exploring statistical models of Kepler data. via Earth-Like Planets Fill the Galaxy | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network. … Continue reading →

Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy 5 times as big as Milky Way

WykenSeagrave — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:44:27 +0000

The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil has crowned it the largest known spiral, based on archival data from … Continue reading →