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Licia Verde receives the Lodewikj Woltjer Lecture award at EWASS
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The cosmologist and theoretical astrophysicist Licia Verde received the Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture yesterday. Awarded by the European Astronomical Society (EAS), the award was presented within the framework of the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS), which takes place in Lyon from June 24 to 28.

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Cent anys de l'eclipsi que va donar la raó a Einstein
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Cent anys de l’eclipsi que va donar la raó a Einstein El 29 de maig de 1919 dues expedicions organitzades per la Reial Societat Astronòmica de Londres van fotografiar un eclipsi total de sol amb la intenció de comprovar la validesa de la teoria general de la relativitat.

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Saul Perlmutter, awarded honorary doctorate by the UB: “Science is being open to be wrong”
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Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter, who led the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe in the nineties and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the UB in a ceremony presided by the rector, Joan Elias, together with his patrons, professors Ramon Canal, from the Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics, and Pilar Ruiz Lapuente, member of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB, UB-IEEC), and the dean of the Faculty of PHyi

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V Festa de la Ciència de la Universitat de Barcelona
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The 5th Science Festival of the University of Barcelona, to be held on Friday May 17 during the morning at the Historical Building, comes with many new activities.

The festival aims to make research carried at the University accessible to everyone, in a fun and innovative way. Therefore, throughout the day, UB - organize outreach activities, workshops, talks and games that will value the work of researchers from all fields of knowledge.

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Black hole picture of galaxy M87
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On Wednesday, April 10, the image of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy made by the scientific team of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) was made public.

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LIGO and Virgo collaborations announce four new gravitational- waves detection
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On Saturday 1st December 2018, scientists attending the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop in College Park, Maryland, presented new results from searches for coalescing cosmic objects, such as pairs of black holes and pairs of neutron stars, by the LIGO and Virgo detectors.
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ServiPartícules, a new outreach portal from ICCUB
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Cosmology, gravitation, particle physics, atomic physics and nuclear physics are the topics to be treated in a disseminating way in the new portal of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB): ServiPartícules.

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Dark Matter Day is coming
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On or around October 31, 2018, the world will celebrate the historic hunt for the unseen—something that scientists refer to as dark matter. More than 110 global, regional, and local events were held on and around October 31, 2017 by institutions and individuals looking to engage the public in discussions about what we already know about dark matter and the many present as well as planned experiments seeking to solve its mysteries.

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