Finding From Particle Research Could Break Known Laws of Physics
It’s not the next Higgs boson — yet. But the best explanation, physicists say, involves forms of matter and energy not currently known to science.
The New York Times
Topics: Dark Matter Particles Quantum Mechanics Universe
When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?
We don’t know, but we could try to find out by searching for it on planets orbiting the very oldest stars.
Scientific American
Topics: Avi Loeb Origin of Life Planets Stars Universe
‘Probable Impossibilities’ Review: An Infinitely Curious Mind
From the origins of thought to the cause of the big bang, Alan Lightman takes on brain teasers of all sizes.
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Big Bang Consciousness Spirituality Universe
Scientists Have Proposed a New Particle That Is a Portal to a 5th Dimension
The path to dark matter and other fundamental enigmas may be through a warped extra dimension, according to a new study that proposes a new theory of the universe.
VICE
Topics: Dark Matter Particles Universe
‘Fundamentals’ Review: The Simplicity of Abundance
The cosmos is so vast as to defy the imagination. So too the atomic realm, with its inner vastness. Yet the ‘ingredients’ are few.
Topics: Reality Spirituality Universe
Our Improbable Existence Is No Evidence for a Multiverse
Experts in probability have spotted a logical flaw in theorists’ reasoning.
Topics: Multiverse Universe
Astronomers Home in on a Precise Date for the Universe’s Birthday
Here’s how astronomers were able to make a new, definitive estimate for the age of the universe.
Salon
Topics: Universe
Could Something Missing in the Universe Be Revealed by Ripples in Spacetime?
New research suggests that gravitational waves could help figure out more about the mysterious dark energy thought to be lurking in the void.
SYFY Wire
Topics: Dark Energy Gravitational Waves Gravity Universe
2020 Was a Time Warp
Was it a year, a day, or a millennium? Science offers clues to why it feels like all of the above.
Vox
Topics: Nature of Time Universe
Fragments of Energy — Not Waves or Particles — May Be the Fundamental Building Blocks of the Universe
Field theory describes the universe as energy flowing along unending lines. With this perspective, it is possible to define a new fundamental building block of matter.
The Conversation
Dark Matter Holds Our Universe Together. No One Knows What It Is
Dark matter, unexplained.
Unexplainable, Vox
Topics: Dark Matter Galaxies Gravity Universe
To Explain Away Dark Matter, Gravity Would Have to Be Really Weird, Cosmologists Say
Analysis of early cosmic evolution points to dark matter’s importance and casts doubt on modified theories of gravity.
Science
Cosmic Bubbles May Have Forged Dark Matter, New Theory Suggests
New theory suggests cosmic bubbles during the birth of our universe are responsible for creating dark matter.
Live Science
Topics: Big Bang Dark Matter Gravitational Waves Particles Universe
What 50 Gravitational-Wave Events Reveal About the Universe
Astrophysicists now have enough black-hole mergers to map their frequency over the cosmos’s history.
Nature
Topics: Black Holes Gravitational Waves Stars Universe
Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are About 50–50
Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research — or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology.
Topics: Quantum Mechanics Reality Universe
An Earlier Universe Existed Before the Big Bang, and Can Still Be Observed Today, Says Nobel Winner
Sir Roger Penrose: “The Big Bang was not the beginning. There was something before, and that something is what we will have in our future.”
The Telegraph
Topics: Big Bang Black Holes Gravity Relativity Universe
Dark Matter Warps Galaxy Clusters More Than Expected, Shaking Up Cosmic Theory
The leading model of how the universe is structured says the biggest clusters shouldn’t be as distorted as they appear through telescopes.
National Geographic
Topics: Dark Matter Galaxies Universe
These Black Holes Shouldn’t Exist, but There They Are
On the far side of the universe, a collision of dark giants sheds light on an invisible process of cosmic growth.
Topics: Black Holes Gravitational Waves Universe
Scientist Calculates the ‘Sad, Lonely’ End of the Universe
Stars will continue to explode long after the universe is cold and “dead,” one scientist determined in diving down the rabbit hole to find the last supernova that will ever happen.
Space.com
Topics: Stars Universe
Could We Force the Universe to Crash?
If we’re all living in a simulation, as some have suggested, it would be a good, albeit risky, way to find out for sure.
Topics: Reality Universe
This Is How It All Ends
In The End of Everything, the theoretical cosmologist Katie Mack takes a look at the ultimate doom and destruction of our universe. It’s not pretty.
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