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A portrait of Mark Thomson - a middle-aged man in glasses, smiling - with a background collage. The collage contains particle sprays, the LHC, and road signs from the CERN campus

Physics

CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality

Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unknowns – and faces hard choices about what comes next

Features

Physics

300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector

News

Space

The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology

Comment

CERN upgrade: Inside the world's largest scientific experiment

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CERN upgrade: Inside the world's largest scientific experiment

Video

The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe

Space

The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe

Features

Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of a neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binary merger, showing the disruption of the neutron star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University).

Space

A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one

Features

Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?

Space

Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?

Features

Inside the best dark matter detector ever built

Video

Inside the best dark matter detector ever built

Video

Space

Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?

Analysis

Illustration depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole and get torn apart by the gravity of the latter. The debris forms a fan-shaped pattern around the black hole before eventually falling in.

Space

A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture

Nearly 40 years after Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, Sarah Alam Malik's epic exploration of the cosmos reflects a changed landscape around science in the 21st century, finds Alison Flood

Culture

Space

A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system

News

Space

The best map of dark matter has revealed never-before-seen structures

News

Video

Does dark energy stem from a thermodynamic theory of space-time?

Video

Space

The first quantum fluctuations set into motion a huge cosmic mystery

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