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Symmetry: Getting the Jump on Big Data for LSST
Efforts are already underway to ensure that the data the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope collects will be ready to be mined for scientific gold.
Symmetry: The Art of Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations
Students estimate their way through pop culture problems to learn a life skill.
Black Hole ‘Batteries’ Keep Blazars Going and Going
Symmetry: Proposed Plan for the Future of US Particle Physics
Symmetry: Coming soon: Plan for the future of US particle physics
The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel’s recommendations will set the course for the future of particle physics in the United States.
Symmetry: The search for dark matter at the LHC
When the Large Hadron Collider restarts, it will be an even more powerful dark-matter-hunting machine.
Symmetry: Planck reveals galactic fingerprint
The Planck mission released a first glimpse of data that, later this year, will test BICEP2’s discovery of gravitational waves.
KIPAC Celebrates Second Annual Public Open House
Symmetry: Scientists to map universe in 3-D HD
In a few years, scientists will come out with a new map of a third of the sky, one that will go deeper and bring that depth into sharper focus than any survey has yet achieved. It will pinpoint 25 million galaxies and quasars, pulling back the curtains on the history of the universe’s expansion over more than half of the age of the universe.
Symmetry: A tinkerer models a cosmic camera
An engineer at SLAC laboratory constructed a full-scale model of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope's cryostat in his spare time.
