2017 Nobel Science Prizes
It’s that time of year again – when the annual Nobel Prize winners are announced. Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the honors in 1895, with the first prizes awarded in 1901. The 2017 Nobel Prize science awards were announced on Monday, October 2nd through Wednesday, October 4th. First, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute […]
Volunteers, Home Computers Help Identify Gamma Ray Pulsars
A network of 40,000 volunteer researchers, along with 200,000 personal computers worldwide, has helped scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Gravitational Physics and Radio Astronomy – the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) discover four gamma-ray pulsars. Pulsars are compact and rapidly rotating neutron stars which are the remains of stars that have exploded. The discoveries […]