Katie Mack

Hawking chair in cosmology and science communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the author of “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)”

Astrophysicist, Hawking Chair in cosmology and science communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, author of “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)”

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Scientists discovered low-frequency gravitational waves that bend and stretch space-time and distort all four dimensions of our universe.

‘Wild to think about’: Gravitational waves bend space and time

Scientists discovered low-frequency gravitational waves that bend and stretch space-time and distort all four dimensions of our universe.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has released its first images that show stars and galaxies never before seen. Some are believed to be more than 4 billion years old.

Out-of-this-world photos from NASA’s Webb telescope give glimpse into past

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has released its first images that show stars and galaxies never before seen. Some are believed to be more than 4 billion years old.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

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