A new set of equations can precisely describe the reflections of the Universe that appear in the warped light around a black...
A cup of mud that has been buried beneath the floor of a cave for millennia has just yielded up the genome of an ancient human....
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As far as we currently know, there is a single expanding blob of spacetime speckled with trillions of galaxies - that's our Universe....
In order to mitigate the global impacts of climate change, we need to dramatically reduce our carbon emissions, or even better...
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The way a planet is tilted on its rotational axis with respect to its orbital plane around a star - what we know as 'axial tilt'...
Scientists have succeeded in combining two exciting material types together for the very first time: an ultrathin semiconductor...
When a star is born, the leftover dust and gas in the cloud from which it formed doesn't just sit there. It clumps together,...