The most poignant figure in the history of LIGO is Joseph Weber of the University of Maryland. Every scientist I interviewed about LIGO talked about Weber, who was a favorite of science writers ...

The effect LIGO observed last September works out ... He has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from the University of Sydney, Australia, a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona, and ...

LIGO's two detectors — one in Louisiana ... He has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from the University of Sydney, Australia, a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona, and a graduate ...

an astrophysicist at Cardiff University, a member of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration who wasn’t an author of the new study. [Related: We’ve recorded a whopping 35 gravitational wave events in ...

Finding patterns and reducing noise in large, complex datasets generated by the gravitational wave-detecting LIGO facility just got easier, thanks to the work of scientists at the University of ...