 An audio slide show. Cosmologist Mark Devlin and a team of scientists and graduate students custom built a sophisticated telescope and launched it to the very edge of space on a NASA weather balloon. BLAST, the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, floated above the atmosphere taking snapshots of far-off galaxies that still carry to earth the light of a very young universe. With BLAST's galactic survey maps, Devlin says, cosmologists, for the first time, have the mass of data that will help them piece together the evolutionary puzzle of the universe. In this audio slide show, hear Mark Devlin talk about his research while viewing photographs from the BLAST experiment. Click here to view the slide show. |
NewsPenn Physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Among Eight Scientists to Receive the 2007 National Medal of ScienceBiology Professor Michael Lampson Named Searle Scholar Fox Leadership Program Fellow Jane Eisner Named Editor-in-Chief of the Forward Chemistry Chair Marsha I. Lester Named Editor of The Journal of Chemical Physics More News EventsSept. 10: 60-Second Lecture, "Is It Wrong To Punish Prisoners?" by Adrian Raine, Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology & Psychiatry. The Plaza at Locust Walk and 37th St. (Rain location, Houston Hall Bistro). 11:55 a.m.Sept. 24: The Penn Humanities Forum presents Has Anything Changed Since the Time of Plato?" by Alexander Nehamas, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University. The Penn Humanities Forum celebrates its 10th anniversary with a year of programming on "Change." Penn Museum, 3260 South Street. 5 p.m. More Events MultimediaPenn Back Then. Listen to alumni sharing their Penn memories at Alumni Weekend 2008.Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of Social Mind. In this video, biologist Dorothy Cheney and psychologist Robert Seyfarth explore the intelligence underlying baboons' social organization. More Multimedia |
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