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• New research indicates the whole universe could be a giant neural network

  The core idea is deceptively simple: every observable phenomenon in the entire universe can be modeled by a neural network. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• If God broke the laws of physics, would scientists even notice?

  I still believed in God (I am now an atheist) when I heard the following question at a seminar, first posed by Einstein, ...

  • The Conversation

• Quantum physics has the answer to making better holograms

  Once, holograms were just a scientific curiosity. But thanks to the rapid development of lasers, they have gradually moved ...

  • The Conversation

• Scientists figured out how to turn black holes into power sources

  A group of scientists from Columbia University recently published a paper detailing how humanity could power an off-Earth ...

  • Tristan Greene

• New math theory suggests time travel is impossible

  A physicist named Nicolas Gisin from the University of Geneva recently published a series of papers that could change our ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This AI just found 50 new planets in a huge NASA dataset

  An algorithm has confirmed the existence of 50 new planets in a world-first for machine learning in astronomy.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• A time traveler's guide to the end of the universe

  In this series we'll take a science and technology-based overhead view of the future from the perspective of a time traveler. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Burst of gamma rays from 10 billion light years away offers glimpse into the early universe

  A short gamma ray burst known to astronomers as SGRB181123B is the second most-distant well-established SGRB ever seen, ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• This robotic basketball hoop makes any klutz shoot like Michael Jordan

  Engineer Shane Wighton built a robotic basketball hoop that follows the ball with computer vision and tilts its backboard ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• The silliest string-theory alternative yet draws inspiration from video games

  Noted physicist, computer scientist, and mathematician Stephen Wolfram recently stunned the science community at-large after ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why these Quasar jets appear to travel faster than light

  Quasar jets imaged by the Earth Horizon Telescope (EHT) show galactic movements in unprecedented detail. Movements of vast ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• Supermassive black holes: How did they grow so fast?

  Whilst astronomers are fairly certain that supermassive black holes, billions of times more massive than our  Sun, dwell ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• Astronomers discover ultramassive white dwarf that could teach us how stars evolve

  A team of astronomers from the University of Warwick led by Mark Hollands, have discovered an ultramassive white dwarf with ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• How the tiniest particles in the cosmos saved us all from annihilation

  Ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves could reveal the answer to one of the greatest questions in the study of ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• These four graphs prove we can’t blame climate change on ‘solar activity’

  The past decade (2010-2019) was the hottest on record and five of the top 10 warmest single years have all occurred since ...

  • The Conversation

• Scientists built an AI to figure out what the universe is made of

  A multi-university team of researchers from Japan recently used the world's fastest astrophysics-simulation supercomputers ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Remembering Stephen Hawking on his 78th birthday: A legacy of humanity

  Stephen Hawking passed away on 14 March 2018. His work changed literally everything we know about the cosmos and our place ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Cosmology in crisis as evidence suggests our universe isn't flat, it's actually curved

  No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of ...

  • The Conversation

• [Best of 2019] This quantum physics breakthrough could be the origin story for time travel

  An international team of researchers recently placed an entire molecule into a state of quantum superposition. This huge ...

  • Tristan Greene

• These new technologies will soon answer our biggest questions about the universe

  In 1900, so the story goes, prominent physicist Lord Kelvin addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science ...

  • The Conversation

• How babies can teach AI to understand classical and quantum physics

  A team of researchers from MIT recently tapped the amazing potential of the human brain to develop an AI model that understands ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists were wrong, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is not dying

  In the last 10 years, but in the last five months in particular, the press has reported dire warnings that the Great Red ...

  • The Conversation

• A new experiment may help us figure out what 'dark energy' actually is

  As an astronomer, there is no better feeling than achieving “first light” with a new instrument or telescope. It is the ...

  • The Conversation

• Physicist claims men are inherently better suited for a career in physics than women in published paper

  The 'Quantitative Science Studies’ journal controversially published a paper that claims men are better suited for a career ...

  • Cara Curtis

• New physics research boldly indicates 'warp drives' may be possible

  Humans are within years of sending the first crewed mission to Mars. And then what? Maybe another 100 years from now we'll ...

  • Tristan Greene