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The Universe’s expansion in the eyes of computers

Dr Saul Perlmutter, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and a 2011 Nobel laureate in physics, discusses the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe and the essential role of computing in this field of research.

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Chirigati, F. The Universe’s expansion in the eyes of computers. Nat Comput Sci 2, 545–547 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-022-00303-3

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