What Would Alien Life Mean for Catholicism? The Vatican’s Chief Astronomer Explains
He also digs into Galileo, icy moons, and the relationship between science and religion.
Vox
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Faith Models of Science & Religion Universe
Mystery Of Universe’s Expansion Deepens With New Cosmic Calculation
The question of how fast the universe is expanding just keeps getting more confusing.
New Scientist
Topics: Stars Universe
Alternative Theory of Gravity Makes a Nearly Testable Prediction
A massive simulation done with a “chameleon” theory of gravity.
Ars Technica
Topics: Dark Energy Dark Matter Galaxies Gravity Relativity Stars Universe
Are We Living in a Simulated Universe? Here’s What Scientists Say
What if our world were simply a hyper-realistic simulation, with all of us merely characters in some kind of sophisticated video game?
MACH, NBC News
Topics: Reality Universe
Lee Smolin on the Impossibility of Studying the Universe
Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Universe
How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
Lee Smolin has a radical idea for how to understand an object with no exterior: Imagine it built bit-by-bit from relationships between events.
Topics: Quantum Mechanics Reality Universe
The Cosmic Now
Are you here now? Impossible to say. The idea that any group of events can truly happen at once is just an illusion.
Aeon
Topics: Nature of Time Universe
Humans Are ‘a Species in a Very Rare Planet’: Cosmologist Makes the Case Against Existential Dread
Templeton Prize recipient Marcelo Gleiser says we have a ‘moral imperative’ to protect life on this planet.
Tapestry, CBC Radio
Topics: Marcelo Gleiser Nature Spirituality Universe
‘Cosmological Koans’ Review: Matter and Mystics
Eastern philosophies can have an uncanny congruence with cutting-edge physics.
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Anthony Aguirre Cosmic Origins Multiverse Nature of Time Quantum Mechanics Reality Universe
Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning
A recent challenge to Stephen Hawking’s biggest idea — about how the universe might have come from nothing — has cosmologists choosing sides.
Topics: Big Bang Cosmic Inflation Universe
The Death of Astronomy?
Probably not, but forthcoming commercial satellite constellations herald a new era for our night skies.
Life, Unbounded, Scientific American
Topics: Caleb Scharf Universe
The Universe Seems to Be Expanding Faster Than All Expectations
New evidence deepens a mystery around the Hubble constant, one of the most important numbers in cosmology.
National Geographic
Dark Matter Detector Makes Incredible Neutrino Observation
A detector designed to hunt for dark matter has made a particle physics observation that will hopefully help physicists establish important truths about our Universe.
Gizmodo
Topics: Dark Matter Neutrinos Particles Universe
Before the Big Bang
Study outlines new proposal for probing the primordial universe.
The Harvard Gazette
Topics: Cosmic Inflation Universe
Einstein’s Scientific Revolution and the Limits of Quantum Theory
Cosmologist Lee Smolin says that at certain key points, the scientific worldview is based on fallacious reasoning
Scientific American
Astronomers Have Spotted the Universe’s First Molecule
Helium hydride (HeH), a combination of helium and hydrogen, was spotted some 3,000 light-years from Earth.
Science Magazine
How Long Do Neutrons Live? Physicists Close in on Decades-Old Puzzle
Researchers are narrowing down their measurements of how long the subatomic particle survives on its own.
Nature
Topics: Dark Matter Particles Universe
Paul Davies on the Origin of Life and the Evolution of Cancer
Physicist Paul Davies is interested in some of the biggest questions that we can ask. What is life? How did the universe begin? How will it end? And are we alone?
The Life Scientific, BBC Radio 4
Topics: Big Bang Extraterrestrial Life Information Origin of Life Paul Davies Science & Religion Dialogue Universe
Physicists See New Difference Between Matter and Antimatter
CERN discovery of a tiny effect in particles called D mesons provides fresh way to probe why matter exists.
Topics: Antimatter Universe
Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics
The multiverse may be an artifact of a deeper reality that is comprehensible and unique.
Topics: Entanglement Multiverse Quantum Mechanics Reality Universe
Thinking Really Big
UC Santa Cruz Magazine
Topics: Anthony Aguirre Cosmic Inflation Cosmic Origins Multiverse Reality Technology Universe
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