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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted worldwide by ...

Columbia professors contributed to new research that seeks to understand an anomaly that has puzzled particle physics for ...

For more than a century, physicists have been trying to reconcile the smooth geometry of gravity with the jittery ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted worldwide by ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025 that may ...

By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

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