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New research from Mathew Madhavacheril and Ph.D. candidate Joshua Kim of the University of Pennsylvania and their collaborators has combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s ...

Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the ...

THE history of astronomy is in some ways exceptional among the sciences. It is the most laborious of all, and from this fact arises a certain apparent discontinuity. For years the work goes on ...

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Computer algorithms can model the universe, matching simulations to observations and revealing the distribution of dark ...

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Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

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This discrepancy is measured using a metric called Sigma 8 (σ8), which tracks the clumpiness of matter. Lower-than-expected ...

Scientists are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s most mysterious component: dark matter, the invisible ...