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Digging Up the Early Universe
Cosmologists are uncovering relics from the dawn of time, letting them look back almost all the way to the...
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A Nobel That Points Us Toward Our Quantum Future
Scientists like to think that true measures of our understanding are our ability to predict something, and, in experimental...
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Space Travel: Pioneer Anomaly Solved?
The 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating human expansion into other star systems, has some crucial hurdles...
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Extending Einstein’s Theory Beyond Light Speed
University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein’s theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light....
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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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Encounters With the God Particle
The Higgs boson, the pope, and the curious interaction between organized religion and big science.
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The Broken Beyond: How Space Turned Into an Office Park
Last summer the last Space Shuttle took its last space flight, but last week it took its last worldly...
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Quasars: Mileposts Marking the Universe’s Expansion
Scientists can’t travel deep space the way Columbus sailed and charted the New World or Lewis and Clark mapped...
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What Is the Smallest Thing in the Universe?
The answer to the enduring question of the smallest thing in the universe has evolved along with humanity. People...