Physics
The universe still seems to be expanding faster than it ought to
The universe is expanding but our measurements of the rate are all over the place and they just got worse, so we can’t tell when the cosmos is going to die
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The ugly, fractured reality of the cosmos deserves our attention
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Health
The books and ideas that will shape the year ahead
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Physics
Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes
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Exploring the universe – and how we found our place in it
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Space
Ancient black holes ruled out as source of all dark matter
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Physics
Dark energy is mutating, with grave consequences for the cosmos
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Space
The usual way of hunting dark matter may be all wrong
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We’ve found a bunch of dwarf galaxies we thought didn’t exist
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How a fiery matter-antimatter union may lead to limitless energy
A weird, self-destructive blend of opposite stuffs briefly reigned at the birth of the universe. Recreating it could crack the nut of nuclear fusion
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Humans
The message we’re sending to nearby aliens is no threat to Earth
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Physics
The New Horizons spacecraft is heading towards a mystery rock
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Dark energy survives neutron star crash test while rivals fail
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Physics
Why our ‘freakish’ galaxy has got cosmologists seriously worried
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