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Thirty-six rising high school seniors are spending five weeks studying near-Earth asteroids using the telescopes at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Sommers-Bausch Observatory. CU Boulder is ...

In the coming weeks, Symmetry will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance particle physics and astrophysics—in a series of articles written and illustrated entirely ...

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In February 2016, the entertainment web site Nevada County Scooper reported that Metallica singer James Hetfield had earned a PhD in astrophysics: Metallica's lead singer and heavy metal guitarist ...