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The film embraces the theories of relativity in a way that’s rare to see in science fiction cinema.
Project Hail Mary reminds us how important our world is – and how vital science is to our continued existence on it.
The congressional anti-communist hearings of the 1940s are a reminder that freedom of speech today is even more fragile than it may seem.
Is time real, or an illusion? The best answer may be neither: Both physics and philosophy suggest that time is a projection of the mind onto a timeless reality.
A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a crystal-clear gravitational wave signal.
First, gravitational waves proved Einstein correct. Now, they’ve confirmed Stephen Hawking was right about black holes.
Stephen Hawking’s prediction about what happens when two black holes merge has finally been verified.
Physicists often say space-time “exists,” but what does that really mean? A hidden confusion between happening and being could be warping our view of reality.
Everything bends space-time. Sometimes, we can even see this effect – and learn a lot from it.
Modern science emerged precisely to deal with the way everything can be manipulated – and scepticism over ‘facts’ goes all the way back to Socrates.
As the universe expands, it feels like it must be spreading out from some initial point. But a physicist explains why that’s not how it works. Hint: space-time is involved.
The speed of light is the fastest anything can travel. What happens to a photon from a galaxy 25 million light years away on its journey toward Earth?
When asked to name a living scientist from their own country, more than half of the respondents in both countries did not reply.
Gravitational waves carry information about massive cosmic events and help scientists to ‘listen’ to space.
Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That’s a problem for our ideas about the universe.
Quantum information theory is the field behind quantum computing, but experts in this field are also applying their way of thinking to some big questions in quantum physics.
In trying to solve the ultimate problem, we may have inadvertently created a monster.
To protect their kings, ancient Mesopotamians discovered how to predict eclipses, which were associated with the deaths of rulers. This eventually led to the birth of astronomy.
Eclipses have long fascinated and intrigued people, and anticipation of the total solar eclipse on April 8 is no exception. The beauty, history, mythology and science of eclipses justify the hype.
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Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav, The University of Western Australia
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