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... WFC3/IR 11696 Infrared Survey of Star Formation Across Cosmic Time We propose to use the unique power of WFC3 slitless spectroscopy ... galaxies with z>5.6 and measure the evolution of the Lya luminosity function, independent of of cosmic variance; 2) Determine the connection between emission line selected ... the NICMOS Parallel grism survey. (5) Trace ``cosmic downsizing" from 0.5<z< ...

So, a few weeks ago we all got an email here at cosmic variance inviting us to the first ever “NASA tweetup” for the next Shuttle Launch. Sean and Mark are in Australia and JoAnne is in Egypt, and Julianne is a launch veteran… but Daniel and I decided that it was too good of an opportunity to pass up. This is despite the ...

Edited to add: My Hive Overmind compatriots at Cosmic Variance have more details.] Hey, is the Earth still here? Because the Large Hadron Collider saw its first proton collisions today! OK, it wasn’t at full power, and this is just a preliminary test, but still: It works! In the graphic above (click to get the whole thing, plus others) ...

the large hadron collider (LHC) is up and running again - successfully this time! beams of particles are shooting around the tubes, and professor brian cox is reporting on twitter that this image shows a candidate collision detected by the ATLAS project!! congratulations to all all at CERN! you can read more at cosmic variance here and here.<$BlogFeedsVertical$>

... are plans to collide at 2.4 TeV (higher than the 1.96 TeV at the Tevatron) before the end of the year if all goes well, and to 7 TeV early next year. Beyond the God Particle ... Physicists at the Cosmic Variance blog have some fun with predictions. A interesting read on the cool soup of particle physics What Will the LHC Find?

... It has great potential to act as a focus for theoretical physics in Japan that can connect physicists and mathematicians from all over the world. As reported by Sean at Cosmic Variance, funding cuts are looming ominously for IPMU and the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science is looking for input from scientists around the world. More information ...

... the expense at those who believe that black holes (singularities in space time) are some sort of liberal conspiracy. Cosmic Variance: gives thanks for the “conservation of momentum” principle in physics. (every Thanksgiving they give thanks for a physical principle). How does an atheist give thanks anyway? True, we ...

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... UC Santa Barbara, and at Fermilab outside Chicago, will reveal new detail and new rumors. This is so exciting that The Tracker immediately fired up another fast-dancing physics blog, Cosmic Variance. Tons of good stuff there on this week’s news – Copenhagen, e-mails, super duper deep Hubble field (see next post). But on ...