Research
Luminosities
Did luminous galaxies begin forming shortly after the Big Bang 13 billion years ago or are galaxies such as the Milky Way cosmologically much younger? More »
NOVa
The acronym stands for NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance (detector). Okay, that's a mouthful. What you need to know is that IU scientists are now forging ahead on a $270 million neutrino project that could eventually answer the question as to why the Big Bang produced more matter than antimatter. (That's the detector site to the left.) More »
Finding Higgs boson
The DZero collaboration has observed the production of single top quarks, a step forward in the quest to find the Higgs boson, an unidentified particle thought to be the origin of mass for all elementary particles. More »
Star crust
Hoagy Carmichael published Stardust in 1929, and the song continues to lighten the hearts of listeners, especially Hoosiers. Eighty years later, an IU theoretical physicist is studying star crust, concluding that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel. More »
Object recognition
Researchers at IU Bloomington's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have received a $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of developmental changes in children's object recognition. More »
