What Is Nothing?
A physicist and a philosopher explain.
Motherboard
Topics: Metaphysics Universe
A New Test for the Leading Big Bang Theory
Cosmologists have predicted the existence of an oscillating signal that could distinguish between cosmic inflation and alternative theories of the universe’s birth.
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Big Bang Cosmic Inflation Universe
The Last of the Universe’s Ordinary Matter Has Been Found
For decades, astronomers weren’t able to find all of the atomic matter in the universe. A series of recent papers has revealed where it’s been hiding.
Topics: Galaxies Universe
Dark Energy May Be Incompatible With String Theory
A controversial new paper argues that universes with dark energy profiles like ours do not exist in the “landscape” of universes allowed by string theory.
Topics: Dark Energy Quantum Gravity String Theory Universe
String Theory May Create Far Fewer Universes Than Thought
Some physicists claim the popular landscape of universes in string theory may not exist.
Scientific American
Topics: Dark Energy Multiverse String Theory Universe
How Quantum Computers Could Kill the Arrow of Time
A new technique for quantum computing could bust open our whole model of how time moves in the universe.
Live Science
Topics: Nature of Time Quantum Mechanics Universe
Dark Side of the Universe
An interview series that explores dark matter, dark energy, and more.
Closer To Truth
Topics: Black Holes Dark Energy Dark Matter Universe
Universe Expansion ‘Detective Story’ Examined With New Tool
A new technique that analyzes clashing observations may help solve the mystery behind the expansion of the universe.
Space.com
Topics: Universe
Oddball Galaxy Puts Dark Matter Theory to the Test
Critical responses have broadsided a study claiming the discovery of a galaxy missing evidence of invisible mass.
Topics: Dark Matter Galaxies Universe
Long Evolution of the Universe
A new interview series.
Topics: Avi Loeb Cosmic Origins Galaxies Stars Universe
Neutrinos Linked With Cosmic Source for the First Time
High-energy neutrinos have been traced back to a flaring supermassive black hole known as a blazar. The long-sought link opens the door to an entirely new way to study the universe.
Topics: Black Holes Neutrinos Universe
Harvard, MIT Scientists Propose New Method to Measure Universe’s Expansion
Scientists from Harvard and MIT could have the key to discovering how the universe began and whether it will continue expanding or eventually collapse.
The Boston Globe
Topics: Black Holes Gravitational Waves Stars Universe
New Higgs Boson Discovery Could Help Solve Cosmic Puzzle
Six years after officially discovering the Higgs boson, particle physicists are announcing that they’ve spotted the Higgs in another way.
Gizmodo
Topics: Particles Universe
How Will Future Civilizations Survive the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe?
Without the ability to access new stars, civs would no longer be able to sustain themselves and expand. The accelerating expansion of the Universe, therefore, would eventually present an existential threat to highly technological intelligent life.
Topics: Avi Loeb Dark Energy Galaxies Stars Universe
Dark Matter
The underground race to solve the universe’s biggest mystery.
Mashable
Topics: Dark Matter Universe
But, Seriously, Where Are the Aliens?
“Where is everybody?” That’s the question physicist Enrico Fermi asked in 1950. Nearly 70 years later, we’re getting tantalizingly close to solving the riddle known as Fermi’s Paradox: If the universe is so large and so old, why haven’t we found life on other planets?
Crazy/Genius, The Atlantic
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Technology Universe
After Years of Searching, Scientists Can Finally Account for All the Normal Matter in the Universe
So-called “normal” matter — the stuff we’re made of — makes up only 5 percent of the universe, and more than half of it is missing. With the help of X-ray observations of a distant quasar, scientists now say they have found it.
Los Angeles Times
Topics: Big Bang Dark Matter Universe
Pioneering Physicist Brian Greene Explains Why It’s Okay to Not Have All the Answers
At a time when the world seems more perplexing than ever, understanding the laws and origins of the universe can give us some much-needed perspective. That’s where Brian Greene can help.
Quartz
Topics: Education Reality Universe
Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence
You exist. You shouldn’t. Stars and galaxies and planets exist. They shouldn’t.
World Science Festival
Topics: Antimatter Neutrinos Particles Universe
What’s the Universe Made Of?
Peer into the universe’s deep unknowns to explore the mysteries of dark matter and energy.
NOVA Wonders
Topics: Dark Energy Dark Matter Galaxies Universe
Fuzzballs v. Black Holes
A radical theory replaces the cosmic crunchers with fuzzy quantum spheres, potentially solving the black-hole information paradox and explaining away the big bang and the origin of time.
FQXi
Topics: Big Bang Black Holes Quantum Gravity String Theory Universe
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