For nearly a century, modern cosmology has treated the Big Bang as the opening moment of everything, the instant when space, ...

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Scientists may have uncovered a surprising secret behind why life exists at all. A new study suggests that the Universe’s ...

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In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.

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Our universe may be fundamentally unstable. In a flash, the vacuum of space-time may find a new ground state, triggering a cataclysmic transformation of the physics of the universe. Or not. A new ...