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Best ever map of early universe is double-edged sword for cosmologists
The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded precise confirmation of the age of the cosmos and its rate of expansion. But for some scientists, the findings offer a frustrating lack of clues to major cosmological mysteries
Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang
The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly early for a spiral galaxy of a similar size to our Milky Way
LHC finds intriguing new clues about our universe's antimatter mystery
Analysing the aftermath of particle collisions has revealed two new instances of “CP violation”, a process that explains why our universe contains more matter than antimatter
The cosmic landscape of time that explains our universe's expansion
A strange new conception of how time warps across the universe does away with cosmology's most mysterious entity, dark energy
The first water may have formed surprisingly soon after the big bang
Water is an essential part of life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere – and now it we know it may have formed not long after the start of the universe
Infrared space telescope will probe ‘inflation’ after Big Bang
Science, Volume 387, Issue 6737, Page 913-914, February 2025.
Astronomers have spotted the largest known object in the universe
The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental assumptions about the universe
AI to revolutionise fundamental physics and ‘could show how universe will end’
Exclusive: Cern’s next director general Mark Thomson says AI is paving the way for huge advances in particle physics
Advanced artificial intelligence is to revolutionise fundamental physics and could open a window on to the fate of the universe, according to Cern’s next director general.
Prof Mark Thomson, the British physicist who will assume leadership of Cern on 1 January 2026, says machine learning is paving the way for advances in particle physics that promise to be comparable to the AI-powered prediction of protein structures that earned Google DeepMind scientists a Nobel prize in October.
Continue reading...How a boy from the Bronx unearthed the workings of the Universe
Nature, Published online: 27 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00218-9
Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg’s posthumously published memoir details a swashbuckling life in physics.A cosmic shape could explain the fundamental nature of the universe
Physicists have created a 3D shape called the cosmohedron, which can be used to reconstruct the quantum wavefunction of the universe - and potentially do away with the idea of space-time as the underlying fabric of the universe
