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Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space as tiny particles.
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.
A physicist explains that the short answer is both … and neither.
Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That’s a problem for our ideas about the universe.
We may be on the cusp of finally breaking the standard model of cosmology.
Neutron stars contain some of the universe’s most exotic states of matter – but there’s no easy way to peek inside.
The way particles interacted while the universe was forming seconds after the Big Bang could explain why the universe exists the way it does – a physicist explains matter-antimatter asymmetry.
Nothing is harder to find than you might think.
A decadelong experiment produced the most accurate measurement yet of the mass of W bosons. These particles are responsible for the weak force, and the result is more evidence for undiscovered physics.
Probabilistic processes are never time-reversible.
The force of nature that holds the atomic nucleus together is poorly understood, but that may be about to change.
Laser-cooling enables new measurements that could explain why antimatter is so scarce in our universe.
Researchers have found a way to speed up the search for dark matter using technology from quantum computing. By squeezing quantum noise, detectors can now look for axions twice as fast.
Field theory describes the universe as energy flowing along unending lines. With this perspective, it is possible to define a new fundamental building block of matter.
Cosmologists had only been able to find half the matter that should exist in the universe. With the discovery of a new astronomical phenomenon and new telescopes, researchers just found the rest.
The movies make it seem like someday we’ll be able to make people and objects grow really big or shrink really small. Whether this will be possible comes down to the smallest of things.
One day we will have a science of consciousness, but it won’t be science as we know it today
Gravity exists because the universe is full of ‘stuff’ – here’s how it came to be.
There are three ways heat can be shared: conduction, convection and radiation. Find out which one lets heat travel through space.
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