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Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What’s eating the first starlight?

A shoestring experiment in the Australian outback has seen the signal of the very first stars – and a weird effect astronomers are struggling to explain

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Our understanding of the universe's expansion is really wrong

Space

Our understanding of the universe's expansion is really wrong

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Physics

The big fudge: Welcome to the theory of not-quite-everything

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We see neutrinos from the big bang in the way galaxies cluster

Space

We see neutrinos from the big bang in the way galaxies cluster

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Space

Pushing the boundaries: A round-up of new popular science books

Culture

Dark radiation may fix our broken understanding of the universe

Physics

Dark radiation may fix our broken understanding of the universe

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The universe may end in a collision with a bubble of nothingness

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The universe may end in a collision with a bubble of nothingness

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Humans

Hawking's global warnings divided opinion but the world listened

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Big Bang

Physics

Why the big bang was not the beginning

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Ancient black holes may have made the first stars look cool

Space

Ancient black holes may have made the first stars look cool

The signature of cold gas around the first stars is far stronger than expected. Some suggest dark matter is to blame, but black holes may be the culprit

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Space

Truth before beauty: Our universe is uglier than we thought

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Physics

Why 2018 is looking like it will be the year of the black hole

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Space

Weird particle soup may have formed stars in the early universe

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Physics

Dark matter could be produced by twisted gravitational waves

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