In Search of Dark Stars

By: Tom Siegfried A conversation with Katherine Freese, the new director of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Times Higher Education Virginia Trimble on the search for the mysterious, magical secret ingredient of the universe.

AstroGuyz It’s the hottest topic in modern astrophysics. What exactly is dark matter and dark energy? It is kind of amazing to think that astrophysicists do not yet completely understand just what most of the universe is made of. And author Katherine Freese is on the forefront of this hunt, as she relates in her […]

BBC Sky at Night Magazine Review by Nicky Guttridge, a science journalist and Hubble public information officer

The Oskar Klein Centre blog Katie Freese was announced as the new Director of Nordita, which is located in the neighbouring building to the Oskar Klein Centre. She was also awarded a big excellence grant for astroparticle physics by the Swedish Research Council, VR, and will receive 101 million Swedish Crowns (around 15 million US […]

Populär Astronomi Katie Freese is the author of the popular science book The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter, which was published earlier this year. In it she tells about the hunt for the particles that scientists believe may represent the universe mysterious dark matter – and even more bizarre dark energy that makes cosmos […]

NewScientist Physicist Katherine Freese drinks deep of her life’s adventures and cosmic mysteries alike in her captivatingly frank book The Cosmic Cocktail.

College of LSA, University of Michigan Einstein guessed at gravitational waves a century ago. The idea of inflation was conceived in 1981. The concepts were mathematically sound, but no one had uncovered tangible evidence to confirm these leaps of imagination. So while it was solid theory, it was also, in a way, pretend. (Click here […]

Washington Post If the cocktail shaker on the cover doesn’t convince you that “The Cosmic Cocktail” might be an unusually entertaining physics book, maybe the lavender feather boa that author Katherine Freese wears for her dust-jacket photo will. (Click here to download the publication as an Adobe PDF file)

The Space Review Freese suggests in the book that “any time now, the question of the dark matter may be answered” by any one of the wide range of experimental approaches. (Click here to download the publication as an Adobe PDF file)