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T o make good decisions on any question the public needs to be well-informed, something not so easily accomplished in America’s schools. That is a key point made by Michael Kent, a recently retired ...

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...

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They shaped the Universe, yet the first stars ever born continue to evade the searches of astronomers like Dr Emma Chapman ...

Astrophysics is the long, unfinished story of how the universe began, evolved, and may eventually end. From the birth of ...

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

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