Physics
Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What鈥檚 eating the first starlight?
A shoestring experiment in the Australian outback has seen the signal of the very first stars 鈥� and a weird effect astronomers are struggling to explain
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Our understanding of the universe’s expansion is really wrong
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The big fudge: Welcome to the theory of not-quite-everything
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We see neutrinos from the big bang in the way galaxies cluster
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Pushing the boundaries: A round-up of new popular science books
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Dark radiation may fix our broken understanding of the universe
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The universe may end in a collision with a bubble of nothingness
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Humans
Hawking’s global warnings divided opinion but the world listened
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Why the big bang was not the beginning
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Ancient black holes may have made the first stars look cool
The signature of cold gas around the first stars is far stronger than expected. Some suggest dark matter is to blame, but black holes may be the culprit
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Truth before beauty: Our universe is uglier than we thought
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Why 2018 is looking like it will be the year of the black hole
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Weird particle soup may have formed stars in the early universe
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Dark matter could be produced by twisted gravitational waves
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