Dark Energy is causing the expansion of the universe to speed up – and not to slow down as everyone expected. This discovery overturns astronomers’ ideas about the history and the fate of the universe. Professor Brian Schmidt describes the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize in Physics last year.
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Allison-Levick Memorial Lecture: The accelerating universe
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Science Friday Audio Podcast
Ask an Astrophysicist — Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Adam Riess takes your questions on dark energy and the cosmos.
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Science Friday Audio Podcast
More to the Universe Than Meets the Eye — The universe is full of invisible stuff. Take dark matter—you can’t spot it with your eyes, but it outnumbers visible matter five to one!
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Science Friday Archives: Should Sugar Be Regulated Like Alcohol?
Science, technology, environment and health news and discussion from the makers of the NPR public radio program Science Friday with host Ira Flatow.
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Stuff You Should Know
How Anti-Matter Spacecraft Will Work — There may be a Bizarro World in our universe. Every particle has a mirror image with a reverse electrical charge, and when these opposites meet an energy transfer 300 times stronger than nuclear fusion occurs. Could this reaction power spacecraft?
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Marcus Chown on 10 Bonkers Things About the Universe
Marcus Chown of New Scientist Magazine on his Top 10 Bonkers Things About the Universe
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China's exploding population spurs worldâs largest water diversion project and lots of questions marks | WBEZ
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HDTV and Home Theater Podcast - #468: Easy Home Theater Audio Tweaks
It seems like there was a lot going on in the news this week, so we have a bunch of current events to cover - everything from iPad 2 to AllRovi.com. Then we go over some tips from an article at Electronic House called Acoustics Matter: Easy Home Theater Audio Tweaks. The article has some good ideas for how to get the most out of your home theater audio equipment and configuration.
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Science Friday Archives: Oliver Sacks and ‘The Mind’s Eye’
Science, technology, environment and health news and discussion from the makers of the NPR public radio program Science Friday with host Ira Flatow.
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Richard Panek: ‘Let There Be Dark’
Everything that we know and can sense may only account for a measly 4 percent of the universe. Everything else? It’s dark. Either dark matter or dark energy. It can’t be seen or even sensed by any instrument that we’ve been able to design. So how do we know it’s there?
Richard Panek answers that question in his book "The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality." Panek’s not a scientist, he’s a creative writer, meaning he focuses on the human narrative behind the discovery of the other 96 percent of the universe.
Richard Panek teaches creative writing at Goddard College in Vermont. He’s also a New York Foundation for the Arts Nonfiction Literature fellow and has received an Antarctic Artists and Writers Program grant from the National Science Foundation. He came to Town Hall on January 25, 2011. His talk focused on the story of who discovered the hidden universe, as well as the science itself.
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