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Black-Hole Laser Edges Closer to Testing Hawking
In a laboratory in Scotland, a revolutionary kind of laser is taking shape – the first one to be...
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How Order Arises From the Random Motion of Particles in the Cosmos
One of the unsolved mysteries of contemporary science is how highly organized structures can emerge from the random motion...
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Neighboring Black Holes Defy Predictions of Violent Interactions
Around the cosmos, black holes aren’t known for being the nicest neighbors. They tend to make their presence felt...
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Unified Theory of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Alters Einstein Field Equations
A pair of mathematicians have proposed a unified theory of dark matter and dark energy that alters Einstein’s equations...
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Mysterious Black Hole Type Perplexes, Bewilders
Billions of times the mass of our own sun, so-called massive black holes present a baffling mystery with clues...
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Does Every Black Hole Contain a New Universe?
Successful as it is, there are notable unsolved questions with the standard big bang theory, which suggests that the...
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Is Supersymmetry Dead?
The grand scheme, a stepping-stone to string theory, is still high on physicists' wish lists. But if no solid...
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Scientists Closing in on ‘God Particle’
More scientists are getting closer in the search for the “God particle” of physics that would help explain the...
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What Happened Before the Big Bang?
What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On...
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Not By Asteroid Alone: Rethinking the Cretaceous Mass Extinction
At the end of the Cretaceous period some 65 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula,...