Universe
31/10/2023 - 13:34
For years, physicists have been scrambling to discover their differences and similarities, to explain how the Universe arose. Discovering... →
21/05/2022 - 17:17
If we want to know the answers to any question we can ask, including about the extent, contents, and age of the Universe, we have two... →
14/06/2021 - 12:56
What happened before time began?
If everything that happens can be attributed to a cause, what caused the universe? To deal with the... →
08/08/2020 - 11:22
It wasn’t merely billions of years of life surviving, thriving, and filling every ecological niche possible on our planet that brought us... →
06/02/2020 - 16:15
Dark matter is the elusive stuff in the Universe that interacts through gravity like ordinary matter, but doesn’t emit or absorb light.... →
30/05/2019 - 14:48
We can’t know for sure which of these is the case, Bostrom concludes, but they’re all possible — and the third option might even be the... →
19/04/2019 - 13:06
To be fair, you would still be crushed. The exact fate of matter sucked into a black hole has long been the subject of debate, but the... →
14/03/2018 - 12:24
Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942. His father, a research biologist, had moved with his mother from London to... →
04/03/2018 - 11:58
The movement of galaxies through space could not be explained by particles and forces that we can observe and understand. The theory now is... →
22/02/2018 - 10:51
“Why should we think common sense is a good guide to what the universe is like?” says Philip Goff, a philosophy professor at Central... →
23/07/2017 - 13:02
Is the flow of time real or an illusion?
The flow of time is an illusion, and I don’t know very many scientists and philosophers who... →
12/06/2017 - 14:35
However, according to astronomy researcher Chris Impey, this hunt for life beyond Earth may soon yield results. In an interview with... →