NBC News MACH “Last October, an amazing neutron star merger event was discovered via gravitational waves from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), and 1.7 seconds later in 70 different detectors in all different wavelengths of light. That means gravity travels at a speed very close to that of light. Combining all this information has […]
University of Michigan LSA “It’s 85 percent of all matter,” says theoretical physicist Katherine Freese about dark matter in the universe. “We’ve got to find out what the hell it is, obviously.”
University of Michigan LSA Physicists take dark matter seriously, and The Cosmic Cocktail author and LSA physicist Katherine Freese is no exception. In her recent book, Freese combines hardcore research with funny anecdotes to show what some scientists do when their academic conference shuts down for the day. Freese herself hangs out with the queen […]
Onedio Thirty years ago, her theories about an unseen glue that helped shape the Universe led to the building of underground particle accelerators around Earth, such as the machines at Cern in Europe. And the particle they are looking for? They are called Wimps, and according to Freese, stars made of this illusive stuff may […]
The Educational Card Project Freese featured as a card in the Educational Card Project.
by Kate Keahey, Elsevier The article featrures “Cardassian expansion: a model in which the universe is flat, matter dominated, and accelerating” – Katherine Freese, Matthew Lewis
Quanta Magazine “‘In my entire career I’ve always been aware of being a woman in physics,’ the theoretical astrophysicist Katherine Freese told Quanta in 2014. When she moved to Sweden that year to head up the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, she was drawn to the cultural acceptance of women in science there. ‘On the […]
Global Citizen “Freese is a trailblazing modern scientist who studies dark matter, including studying “dark stars” in the universe, something that has never been observed directly by a human. She’s the Director of Nordita, an institute for theoretical physics in Stockholm.”
NBC News My work seeks to understand what the universe is made of. Ordinary atomic material makes up only five percent of the universe. Most of the mass in the universe is made of dark matter, and we want to know what it is. Right now, only one experiment has detected a hint of dark […]
Science News But other experiments have not used the same technology as DAMA, says theoretical astrophysicist Katherine Freese of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “There is no alternative explanation that anybody can think of, so that is why it is actually still very interesting.”