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Why Elon Musk has misunderstood the point of Star Trek
As Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth talk about wanting to make Star Trek real, long-time fan Chanda Prescod-Weinstein says they've misconstrued the heart of the story
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The best new popular science books of February 2026
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The first quantum fluctuations set into motion a huge cosmic mystery
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Comets were on fire this year – for better or worse
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Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us
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A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web
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Is the expansion of the universe slowing down?
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The end of US support for the CMB-S4 telescope is devastating
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The 30-year fight over how many numbers we need to describe reality
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Is the universe really one big black hole?
According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could the whole cosmos be a black hole?
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Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?
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We’ve discovered the most massive black hole yet
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Is gravity a new type of force that arises from cosmic entropy?
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Laws of quantum physics may rule out a universe that came before ours
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