Tim Childers was a freelance science journalist with a background in physics and science communication. He studied Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, with his research focused on modeling the dynamics of the accretion disks surrounding black holes. He then went on to do an internship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center using his film talents to create videos, news stories, and interviews. Nowadays, Tim is an exceptionally curious data scientist who loves using data to tell stories to a diverse audience.
Latest articles by Tim Childers

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Refrence Boötes is a constellation in the northern hemisphere containing one of the brightest stars in the night sky, Arcturus.

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reference A light-year is a measurement of the distance light travels in a single Earth year, which is important for measuring the vast distances of space

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Like mad scientists, researchers are creating miniature black holes in their laboratories. Their mission? To see if a mysterious form of radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking exists.

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New theory suggests cosmic bubbles during the birth of our universe are responsible for creating dark matter.

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Physicists set a new record by linking together a hot soup of 15 trillion atoms in a bizarre phenomenon called quantum entanglement.

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Scientists are searching for a ghostly neutrino particle that acts as its own antiparticle. If they find it, the discovery could resolve a cosmic conundrum: Why does matter exist at all?

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An international team of scientists has created the most detailed large-scale model of the universe to date, a simulation they call TNG50.

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Home to the largest fully steerable telescope in the world, Green Bank Observatory has a long history of leading the world in radio astronomy.

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This mysterious matter was predicted from Einstein's theory of special relativity, but physicists can't seem to find it!

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A pulsar 25,000 light-years away is wobbling in a weird way. But Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted it more than a century ago.

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The cosmological constant has plagued physicists for more than a century.

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Are aliens using super powerful flashlights to get our attention? Astronomers think there's a chance they are.
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