His latest book, Discordance, fits into the class of conventional popular cosmology, in so far that it is an account of how our present understanding of the Universe has emerged. But it is also, with ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

The idea that gravity shapes the universe into nicely bounded superclusters is being overturned by a finding so gargantuan that it could send cosmologists back to the drawing board. The new mapping of ...

Within modern astrophysics, dark matter is considered a critical component influencing the formation and structure of the ...

Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what ...

The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology. Within the standard framework of ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare group of five dwarf galaxies located relatively close to Earth; these galaxies exist in a near-perfect alignment, resembling a string of cosmic pearls in the sky.

It’s compelling to consider Tammy Nguyen’s work through the lens of semantics—as words, annotations, doodles, images and symbols drawn from a range of sources coalesce into a new code across a ...

At a beachfront convention center in Cancún, Mexico, last December, Seshadri Nadathur presented a confidential growth chart of the universe. Seated in the audience, hundreds of his fellow scientists ...

Illuminating the Dark. Mysterious dark matter and neutrinos, formed moments after the Big Bang, are the focus of a new cosmological collaboration between USC, UC Riverside and the Carnegie Science ...