James Colin Hill

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has announced its awards and prizes for 2023. This includes three former scholars in the School of Natural Sciences, who were given a Buchalter Cosmology Prize.

Eight past Members in the School of Mathematics and the School of Natural Sciences are among the recipients of the 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships, a landmark honor for early-career scholars. 

Physicist Brian Keating details the process by which breakthrough scientific results can be reached and announced, then peer reviewed and debunked. Though his team believed they'd proven cosmological inflation, a Nobel Prize-worthy discovery if...