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COVID-19 in Fall 2020: A Concerning Situation for Students
Universities are making plans for the fall. What happens for graduate students?
The Fault in Our (Unaligned) Stars
If dark matter did not exist, the visible matter in the universe should be able to explain all gravitational phenomena. But can it?
One Dark Matter Profile Please, Hold the Subhaloes
When we observe galaxies and measure their dark matter halos, we exclude subhaloes from the halo’s mass profile. When we simulate haloes, we include them. But what if we didn’t?
Salt and Hot Water around Massive Protostars
The discovery of table salt and super-heated water in two massive protostellar disks hints at a new type of “hot-disk” chemistry.
Look, Up in the Sky! Is it a Black Hole? Is it a Neutron Star? Good Question.
The most recent gravitational wave merger detected by LIGO/VIRGO consists of two objects with very unequal masses. But just what is the smaller object?
The Faint Young Sun (is not a) Problem
The apparent paradox of an early warm wet Earth but wimpy young sun may be solved by improved constraints and sophisticated atmospheric models.
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