Life
Why is the universe just right for life? Blame the multiverse
Physicists have long speculated why our universe seems “just right” for life. The most complex answer might be the simplest – that every other universe also exists
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Humans
Why do we exist? The meaning of life isn’t to be found in the stars
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Space
Cosmic calculation may settle debate about the rate the universe grows
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Space
We finally know when the first stars in the universe switched on
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Physics
Why the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe
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Physics
The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology
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Space
Enormous strands of galaxies in the cosmic web appear to be spinning
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Physics
Merging galaxies throw shade on alternative dark matter theory
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Space
Line of galaxies is so big it breaks our understanding of the universe
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Space
Project Hail Mary review: Andy Weir conjures a new tale of space peril
In the latest sci-fi novel from The Martian author, Andy Weir, an unlikely duo battle to avert the decline of our sun (and the collapse of life on Earth)
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Space
Antimatter stars may lurk in the solar system’s neighbourhood
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Space
One of our most basic assumptions about the universe may be wrong
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Physics
Why the universe can be described by the equations of fluids
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Physics
Everything we know about the universe – and a few things we don’t
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