Artificial intelligence is transforming the way scientists explore the universe—from designing more sensitive instruments and accelerating complex simulations to uncovering patterns hidden within enormous datasets. But at the Science x AI Summit held at UC Riverside, one idea surfaced again and again: the greatest breakthroughs won't come from technology alone. They will come from the...
LIVE SCIENCE - Astronomers have reconstructed the "skeleton" of the cosmos in unprecedented detail, thanks to the largest-ever survey conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The resulting map reveals how galaxies have evolved since the universe's infancy around 13 billion years ago and how they fall together in a vast structure called the...
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Adam Riess visited UC Riverside on June 4 to deliver the latest installment of the Frontiers of Cosmology Lecture Series, offering a public exploration of one of the most profound mysteries in modern science: why the universe’s expansion is accelerating. Hosted by the UCR Center for Experimental Cosmology & Instrumentation (CECI) in...
LIVE SCIENCE - Astronomers have reconstructed the "skeleton" of the cosmos in unprecedented detail, thanks to the largest-ever survey conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The resulting map reveals how galaxies have evolved since the universe's infancy around 13 billion years ago and how they fall together in a vast structure called the...
THE DEBRIEF - New data collected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is helping researchers map the cosmic web in the greatest detail ever achieved, providing new insights into the network of galaxies as improved resolution reveals hidden features. An international team of researchers led by the University of California, Riverside, revealed their newest...
EARTH.COM - For years, maps of how matter is arranged across the universe came with a built-in compromise. Individual galaxies showed up fine. The filaments and clusters they formed – the bigger architecture – remained smeared at the edges. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is changing that. Its largest survey has produced the most...
ENGADGET - We love when astronomers share the images they capture with the James Webb Space Telescope because they are so dang beautiful and cool. But of course, science is about more than just pretty pictures. A research team has used the telescope to map out the cosmic web, a collection of dark matter, gas...
INTERESTING ENGINEERING - Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have created the most detailed map yet of the universe’s vast cosmic web, revealing how galaxies connected and evolved across 13.7 billion years of history. The new map gives scientists an unprecedented look at the large-scale structure of the universe during its earliest stages. Researchers...
SPACE.COM - A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research suggests. The first mystery that could be solved involves an ultradense clump of matter detected in the system JVAS B1938+666, which is gravitationally lensed, or visibly distorted, thanks to a quirk of general relativity. The...
UNIVERSE TODAY - One of the most intriguing puzzles in cosmology is the existence of supermassive black holes that seem to appear very early in the history of the Universe. Astronomers keep finding them at times when, by all that they understand about the infant Universe, they shouldn't be there. The standard theory of black...
