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The Kavli Institute is delighted to announce that Professor Roberto Maiolino, a previous Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, University of Cambridge has been elected as member of The Royal Society. Professor Maiolino studies the formation of galaxies using observations...

Congratulations to Sunny Vagnozzi (Newton-Kavli Fellow) and Anne Davis on their award of a 2021 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for their paper “Direct detection of dark energy: the XENON1T excess and future prospects” ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15834 ). The work was featured in a previous KICC news item https://www.kicc.cam...

Countdown for a Christmas Day launch of an Ariane Rocket carrying the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun. JWST will be the largest telescope in space. Often regarded as the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, is dubbed "The First Light Telescope", as it is expected to detect and characterize the first...