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Schmidt's group and a rival team led by Saul Perlmutter, of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, used very similar techniques to make the measurements. They looked for a kind of explosion called a Type Ia supernova, occurring when an aging star destroys itself in a gigantic thermonuclear blast. Type Ia's are so bright that they can be seen all the way across the universe and are uniform enough to have their distance from Earth accurately calculated...
...nobody had got enough data. Back in 1997, astronomers Mark Phillips of the Space Telescope Science Institute and Ron Gilliland of the Carnegie Institute of Washington had used the Hubble Space Telescope to spot a distant supernova designated SN 1997ff and, with the help of Peter Nugent, a Lawrence Berkeley astronomer on Perlmutter's team, had determined its speed of recession from Earth. Nugent couldn't figure out the distance, though: determining the brightness of a Type Ia calls for not just one but several measurements, spread over time...
...catch a softball and couldn't even serve a volleyball over the net. I was always the last to be picked for a team. But dodge ball--now there was a game I could play. Take away dodge ball, and the geeks won't have a chance. JANE WONG Berkeley, Calif...
After being stopped by Cal-Berkeley in the finals, the Crimson rounded out its spring break with three doubleheaders...
...federal minimum wage?urrently $5.15?s set by Congress and is therefore dependent on politics, says Michael Reich, professor of economics at UC-Berkeley and research chair for the Institute of Labor and Employment...