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The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, but how do we know that?

KU assistant professor of physics and astronomy Steven Prohira was announced as a 2022 MacArthur Fellow, winning the $800,000 genius grant.

Steven Prohira joins the Class of 2022 "genius grant" recipients

A computer program that was created by a global research team can simulate the movement of cosmic rays through space. The goal is to help the researchers unravel the riddle surrounding the origins of cosmic rays.

The first law of thermodynamics tells us that the amount of energy in the universe is constant and can neither be destroyed nor created.

Already very successful in Italy, the Cosmos Book Prize initiative has now kicked off in the Netherlands. High school students get to read popular science books for free, and together elect a prize winner. A professional jury elects a second winner.

Photo credits: EUCALL website.

This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF’

This article looks at Fu, C. et al.'s journal published in Matter and Radiation at Extremes, looking at novel opportunities for nuclear and atomic physics on the femto- to nanometer-scale using ultra-high-intensity lasers.

Ohio State University scientists are collaborating on an international effort to produce a 3D map of the universe in unprecedented detail, allowing