Joel Primack, professor of physics at UCSC, and his wife Nancy Abrams gave a series of four public lectures at Yale University in October, and videos of those talks are now available on YouTube. Links ...

Our understanding of the cosmos has come a long way since the early Mesopotamians described a flat, circular Earth embedded in a cosmic ocean. Now scientists build massive telescopes and use highly ...

Discussions are underway to select the next speaker for the Elon Musk Public Lecture series, which was last held at Penn in 2023. The Musk lectures began in 2009 following an endowment by 1997 College ...

(Link) This study reports the results of the first systematic investigation into Astro 101 students' conceptual and reasoning difficulties with cosmology. We developed four surveys with which we ...