Ever looked up in the sky and wondered where it all came from? Cosmologists are in the same boat, trying to understand how the Universe arrived at the structure we observe today. They use supercomputers to follow the fate of very small initial fluctuations in an otherwise uniform density. As time passes, gravity causes the small fluctuations to grow, eventually forming the complex structures that��
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This week��s Spotlight is on Dr. Debbie Bard, a cosmologist at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). KIPAC members work in the Physics and Applied Physics Departments at Stanford University and at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. To handle the massive amounts of data involved in cosmological measurements, Debbie and her colleagues Matt Bellis (now an��
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