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April 25, 2018

Assembly of Massive Galaxy Cluster Witnessed for the First Time By Thomas Sumner

Artistic illustration of newly discovered group of interacting and merging galaxies in the early universe

March 22, 2018

Hubble Telescope Reveals Source of Gas Streaming Into Milky Way By Thomas Sumner

A photo mosaic of an edge-on view of the Milky Way galaxy, looking toward the central bulge. The arc-shaped Magellanic Stream stretches below the galaxy’s plane and the shredded, fragmented Leading Arm crosses the galaxy’s plane and extends above it

March 19, 2018

Cosmologists Create Largest Simulation of Galaxy Formation, Breaks Their Own Record, Gauss Center for Supercomputing

Composite which combines gas temperature (as the color) and shock mach number (as the brightness). Red indicates 10 million Kelvin gas at the centers of massive galaxy clusters, while bright structures show diffuse gas from the intergalactic medium shock heating at the boundary between cosmic voids and filaments

February 26, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Techniques Reconstruct Mysteries of Quantum Systems By Thomas Sumner

Graphic illustrating machine learning. On the left is a box labelled Input Measurements with an arrow to a graphic in the middle labelled Neural Network, which has an arrow pointing to the right labelled Reconstructed Measurements. Input measurements has eight colorful digital illustrations of cats. The Neural Network has three squares and three colorful circles that are all connected. The Reconstructed Measurement boxes has the same colorful cat images in the first box.

February 20, 2018

Astronomers’ Dark Energy Hopes Fade to Gray, The New York Times

A remnant from a Type 1A supernova observed in the Milky Way, one of the cosmic markers of how fast the universe is expanding

February 09, 2018

Study Shows How the Body Prevents Potentially Useful Bacteria from Causing Disease, NYU Langone News

Chart showing how WT mice (n=6) were colonized with H. hepaticus for 3–4 weeks and analyzed for RORγt, Foxp3 and Bcl6 expression in total CD4+ (red) and HH-E2 tetramer+ (blue) T cells from the LILP (d) and frequencies of Treg (Foxp3+), TH17 (Foxp3−RORγt+) and TFH (Bcl6+) among HH-E2 tetramer+ T cells in the LILP and CP

February 08, 2018

Neuropixels Developer James Jun Joins CCB’s Numerical Algorithm Group

Portrait photo of James Jun

February 08, 2018

The Statistician Who Believed in Miracles, Bloomberg News

Drawing of Planet Apses, Sun Movement, Stars, Earth, Moon and Armillary Sphere