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New light on dark matter

Researchers explain that dark matter particles may have electric charge, and why that matters

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DateMay 30, 2018November 26, 2018

Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, sees intriguing lines of evidence that tie dark matter to comets in the solar system’s distant Oort cloud, and from there to the 66-million-year-old impact crater on Mexico’s Yucatán coast.

Dramatic chain of events

Physicist Lisa Randall connects dark matter, dinosaur extinction in new book

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DateOctober 26, 2015

“If we knew what we were going to find, we’d all just go home,” said Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Melissa Franklin, one of the Harvard scientists working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland.

Back into the dark

With collider set to reboot, physicists look beyond the Higgs

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DateDecember 16, 2014

“We have some genuinely new ideas,” said Lisa Randall, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science. “I’ll say from the start that we don’t know if they’re going to turn out to be right, but what’s interesting is that this opens the door to a whole class of ideas that haven’t been tested before, and potentially have a great deal of interesting impacts.”

Delving into dark matter

Theory says there may be disk of it at center of galaxy

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DateJune 13, 2014

"In a world with many problems where progress isn’t always clear, it is wonderful to see science so clearly advance and for us to be able to answer such basic questions that help us better understand our universe," said Lisa Randall, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, on the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Explaining the Higgs

Lisa Randall’s e-book drew quick attention, and a publisher

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DateJanuary 13, 2014

Astronomy Department Chair Avi Loeb discussed the findings from the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite program that showed the universe as being a little older, containing a bit more mysterious dark matter, and expanding more slowly than previously thought.

Tweaking the universe

Planck satellite findings bring Big Bang’s aftermath into crisper focus, astrophysicist says

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DateMarch 27, 2013

Graduate student Eli Visbal and colleagues have simulated how stars formed in the universe’s infancy clump together into massive web-like structures. The key to the simulation, he said, was the inclusion of a 2010 discovery that normal matter, such as hydrogen gas, and dark matter — which makes up more than 80 percent of the universe — move through the universe at different speeds.

Stars in the making

Research may sharpen view of developing universe

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DateAugust 2, 2012May 2, 2019

In the 1990s, Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, worked with a team that today includes Nobel Prize winners. “They’re all my kids,” said Kirshner of Nobel winners Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess, and others who investigated dark energy in the days when it seemed like science fiction.

Nobel origins

Winners of physics prize have strong ties to Harvard

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DateOctober 4, 2011June 6, 2019

J. Richard Bond awarded Gruber Prize at CfA

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DateSeptember 25, 2008