The conclusion of DESI's first survey marks an important milestone for cosmology, which finds itself in a bind for the best reasons. Reading time 5 minutes Last week, the Dark Energy Spectroscopy ...

God spoke the universe into existence with a stupendous flash of light. For those who doubt – read Genesis or study Einstein and Hawking. They (and their mathematics) agree that our universe began ...

A few years ago, the internet caught alight with talk of a “vibe shift” in what counts as cool. Skinny jeans and minimalism were out; baggy trousers and messy hair were in. Cue a minor panic for ...

Last year, cosmologists working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) reported hints that the mysterious dark energy thought to be driving the expansion of the universe may be weakening ...

Born in Vichy in 1969, I grew up during the Apollo era, inspired by space exploration, nuclear energy, and major scientific discoveries. Early on, I developed a passion for quantum physics, relativity ...

ABSTRACT: This study presents a quantitative theoretical approach for computing the radius of the electron based on the dynamic nature of the quantum universe. Measuring the electron’s radius directly ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out dozens of models that attempted to solve it. Reading time 3 minutes The ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), those years amount to nearly 20—and now the ...

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory of relativity. It was a masterpiece, giving us our modern-day ...

To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in the sky. But no one knows whether the ...

Confucian cosmology was never about superstition. Its real power lay in de-centering authority – binding rulers to a higher standard they couldn’t control. The statue at Fan Zhongyan’s tomb site in ...

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