Space
The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe
It gives everything mass, and now some people think the Higgs boson sparked the stupendous split-second inflation that made the cosmos we see today
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Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape
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Earth
Odds on: Five scientific theories decided by wager
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Neutron stars that slow down could be eating ‘backwards’ gas
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Volunteers spot four super-Earths orbiting sun-like star
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New approach to dark energy might explain our cooling universe
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Earth-sized telescope set to snap first picture of a black hole
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Physics
Gravitational waves slow the spin of shape-shifting neutron star
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The coldest place in the universe marks a double stellar grave
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Humans
Inside knowledge: What wisdom will live on once we’re gone
It's AD 3700, and Homo sapiens is no more than a memory. History suggests some of our knowledge will outlive us – but history may not be the best guide
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Win a pair of signed books by Lawrence M. Krauss
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The many-tentacled galaxy that could drive a physics revolution
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Cosmological ruler could help us get the measure of dark energy
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Dark matter took its time to wrap around early galaxies
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