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Nathan Sanders

Nathan Sanders has written 57 posts for astrobites

One week left to apply for Communicating Science 2013!

In January, we announced the Communicating Science 2013 workshop. Now there’s just one week remaining before the March 1st application deadline for the Workshop.

Visit Astrobites at the AAAS Meeting in Boston

Stop by our poster at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Apply Now for Communicating Science 2013!

Astrobites and Chembites are organizing a science communication workshop for graduate students to be held in June – you can apply now!

Can you hide a super-massive black hole?

Observational surveys looking for the smallest super-massive black holes come up empty; could they be hiding in plain sight?

The Prisoner’s Dilemma: A new solution to an age old problem

The Prisoner’s Dilemma is one of the classic problems in game theory, first posed in 1950 and studied exhaustively for generations. Remarkably, a new solution has been discovered that prompts us to re-examine long held principles.

Astrobites on the arXiv

The subject of today’s paper from the arXiv is… Astrobites

How to submit a paper

You’ve finally done it – completed your first scientific paper for publication. What do you do with it now?

A new tool to investigate a century old mystery

The current and next generation of large scale spectroscopic surveys could provide new clues in the hunt for the carriers producing mysterious interstellar absorption features.

Astronomy software developer Bill Joye on ds9 7.0

We discuss software development in astronomy with Bill Joye and tour the newest version of his ubiquitous program, ds9.

The first detected signature of dark matter annihilation?

A flurry of recent papers point to detection of a ~130 GeV gamma-ray emission line from near the Galactic center. If real, this could be the first detection of a signature of annihilating dark matter.

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