Researchers from West Virginia University have received $1.34 million to develop machine-learning software for the U.S. Department of Energy. The researchers, James Lewis and Aldo Romero from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will lead a team Read More
Early last year, a team of scientists detected gravitational waves in the universe – something that Albert Einstein predicted a hundred years prior in his theory of relativity. Dr. Sean Read More
A faculty member from West Virginia Wesleyan College (WVWC) is featured on the cover of the fall issue of The Neuron magazine. The accompanying article articulates the ways in which Dr. Tracey DeLaney, an Read More
Dr. Jason Best, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Shepherd University, believes the year he spent as an American Council on Education Fellow has given him more tools to help Read More
On the heels of their participation in the historic research that resulted in the detection of gravitational waves, West Virginia University (WVU) astrophysicists continue to plow new ground and build Read More
A team of astronomers, including a West Virginia University professor, has uncovered the most detailed record ever of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) – brief yet brilliant eruptions of cosmic Read More
From The National Radio Astronomy Observatory A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. This ancient stellar remnant is so cool that its Read More