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The Forgotten Planets
Why should Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn get all the attention? -
How Much Should Expectation Drive Science?
Answers to the biggest mysteries may lie well outside traditional paradigms. -
Dark Matter Could Be a Superfluid Sometimes
Dark matter might be fluid in galaxies but something else on vaster, cosmological scales. -
Meet the South Pole’s Dark Matter Detective
Reina Maruyama wasn’t expecting her particle detector to work buried deep in ice. She was wrong. -
The Physicist Who Denies that Dark Matter Exists
Maybe Newtonian physics doesn’t need dark matter to work, but Mordehai Milgrom instead.
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Dark Matter Is in Our DNA
The binary pairing of Darkness and Light is so basic to human culture, no other name for the unseen stuff could do.
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If You Can’t Find Dark Matter, Look First for a Dark Force
Physicists are rethinking how to use the Large Hadron Collider to search for dark matter.
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Maybe Dark Matter Is All Just a Big Mistake
what is dark matter. Mystery two: how to unify physics. Are they the same mystery?
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Dark Matter May Show Quantum Effects on a Galactic Scale
This weird type of dark matter would also puff up galaxies and make stars age prematurely.
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Dark Matter Is Either Like Neptune or Like Vulcan
This isn’t the first time that scientists have wrestled with the unseen.
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The Multiverse Is an Ancient Idea
Turns out, we’ve been debating the notion of infinite worlds for millennia. -
There Is Dust in the Universe, But I Have Never Seen It
A poet finds inspiration in cosmic darkness. -
Music for the Birth of the Universe
This composer takes inspiration from scientific cosmology and quantum mechanics. -
Fictional Multiverses Are Frankly Kind of Lame
And sorry, Eleven, but psychic powers won’t transport you to another world. -
Fine-Tuning Does Not Imply a Fine Tuner
Some think fine-tuning is evidence for God, but in fact the opposite is true.