Science and reality
The path from a revolutionary set of equations to the detection of gravitational waves was strewn with obstacles and controversy.
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What path should you take to catch another football player? Here are three different ways to run the play.
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The laws of physics work both forward and backward in time. So why does time seem to move in only one direction? One potential answer may also reveal the secrets of the universe’s missing mass.
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Scientists are compiling a picture of the shadow of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and it could reveal general relatively breaking down.
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Bizarre quantum bonds connect distinct moments in time, suggesting that quantum links—not space-time—constitute the fundamental structure of the universe.
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Rumors of a new discovery (but no data to back it up) made their own waves in social media.
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Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider reported an unusual bump in their signal. But this time, they have no idea where the bump came from.
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Physicists have high hopes for the LHC's second run.
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It wasn't just big accelerators that made the news in 2015. Small is beautiful too.
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This summer Russian tech billionaire Yuri Milner announced he’ll fund the most extensive sweep yet for radio signals from alien civilizations.
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