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Physicists have proposed a new model of space-time that may provide the 'first observational evidence supporting string ...

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With a range of star projectors on the market, it's hard to know which to pick — here we try out the Dark Skys DS-FX — can it ...

Scientists urge storytelling in scientific writing to connect emotionally and spark public action on climate change.

The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that "cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt." In studying the history of the universe itself, there is always a ...

New observations of the cosmos show that the dark energy, a mysterious force that accelerates the expansion of the universe, is evolving.