• Heads will roll… in Princeton, NJ

    Updated: 2012-07-31 15:14:15
    , New in Print March Mathness Election 101 PUP Home Blog Jul 30 2012 Heads will roll in Princeton , NJ by Jessica Pellien Filed in : Art and Architecture Princeton Princeton University Press 9:37am EST A quick peek out the Princeton University Press publicity offices reveals this : sight Hidden beneath these sheets are three of the heads from the Princeton University Art Museum’s new installation of Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals Zodiac Heads” . If the labels are to be believed , this truck holds Rat” , Horse” , and Pig” . The heads are quite literally rolling down Shapiro Walk on their way to installation on Scudder . Plaza We are doubly excited for this exhibit as we are also producing a new volume of substantial and provocative quotes from Ai Weiwei . We will soon post details of this

  • Peter Dougherty on The Global University Press

    Updated: 2012-07-31 15:14:15
    New in Print March Mathness Election 101 PUP Home Blog Jul 26 2012 Peter Dougherty on The Global University Press by Brianne Colombo Filed in : Princeton University Press Publishing Twitter 3:07pm EST Peter Dougherty , director of Princeton University Press and newly appointed president of the Association of American University Presses wrote a piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education this : week Back in the 60s , an academic in New Delhi , on being introduced to the president of Princeton , greeted him politely by asking if his employer had any connection with Princeton University Press . Such was the reputation of a single American university press and its books at a time not so long . ago The modern world’s understanding of itself has long been shaped by university-press books—whether

  • X-Rays Discovered from Young Supernova Remnant

    Updated: 2012-07-30 06:00:00
    Over fifty years ago, a supernova was discovered in M83, a spiral galaxy about 15 million light years from Earth.

  • Black Hole Growth Found to be Out of Synch

    Updated: 2012-06-11 06:00:00
    New results based on these two objects are challenging the prevailing ideas as to how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies.

  • Einstein was right, neutrino researchers admit

    Updated: 2012-06-08 20:59:24
    A team of scientists who last year suggested neutrinos could travel faster than light have conceded that Einstein was right and the sub-atomic particles are – like everything else – bound by the universe’s speed limit.

  • ONLY TWO COSMIC DOOMSDAYS ARE CERTAIN

    Updated: 2012-06-08 20:50:54
    The sardonic proverb “nothing is certain but death and taxes,” can now be recast for the cosmos. Last week’s announcement of the inevitable collision of the Andromeda galaxy with the Milky Way is one of only two apocalyptic astronomical predictions that we can be absolutely certain of. The other is the death of our sun. [...]

  • Future Shock: M31 to Hit Milky Way Head-On

    Updated: 2012-06-08 20:40:26
    Astronomers have long known that the Andromeda Galaxy is headed our way. Now they’ve concluded that it most likely will collide with the Milky Way head-on — with dramatic consequences.

  • NASA kills X-ray telescope, blames project’s cost

    Updated: 2012-06-08 20:09:29
    NASA killed a new X-ray telescope mission on Thursday, two years before its planned launch. The Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer mission, or GEMS for short, was supposed to blast off in 2014 to study black holes and neutron stars. But external reviews found the project would likely come in considerably over budget.

  • Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy

    Updated: 2012-06-04 06:00:00
    The galaxy at the center of this image contains an Xray source, CID-42, with exceptional properties.

  • A Pinwheel in Many Colors

    Updated: 2012-05-24 06:00:00
    This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA's space-based telescopes.

  • Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making

    Updated: 2012-05-09 06:00:00
    Galaxies with the most powerful, active, supermassive black holes at their cores produce fewer stars.

  • Black Hole Caught Red-handed in a Stellar Homicide

    Updated: 2012-05-03 06:00:00
    A galaxy about 2.7 billion light years from Earth with a supermassive black hole at its center.

  • The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll

    Updated: 2012-04-25 00:16:12
    , The Particle at the End of the Universe Sean Carroll The Particle at the End of the Universe is a popular-level book on the Higgs boson and the Large Hadron Collider , to be published by Dutton in January , 2013. The Book The Author Interactions Contact About the book Particle physics the study of the fundamental ingredients of nature and their interactions is on the verge of changing forever . For better or for worse , we don't yet know . But what happens this year and the next will determine the future of a quest that began over 2,500 years ago with the atomists of ancient . Greece Back in the 1970's , particle physicists put the finishing touches on an elaborate and spectacularly successful theory of nature†s fundamental interactions , unimaginatively dubbed the Standard Model of

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