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Quirks & Quarks is having its 50th anniversary this fall. Bob McDonald shares his appreciation for the people behind the ...

A surprising new paper suggests that the universe's expected lifespan is just 33 billion years, and that the cosmos will start dying in less than a third of that time. However, this is only one ...

New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — ...

For decades scientists believed the universe was built on ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy. These unseen forces ...

That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that uncertainty produces others, too: it makes it impossible to calculate an exact age ...

The first chemical reactions in the wake of the Big Bang have been recreated for the first time in conditions similar to those in the baby Universe.

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first ...

While radio waves are the method of choice when searching for signals of intelligent alien life, other detectable signs also ...

A backward, mirror universe could explain the existence of dark matter. If an anti-universe exists, it would run backward in ...

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Black holes are complicated beasts. They have consistently broken our physics and studying them has opened our eyes to the limitations of our knowledge. One crucial problem is the Information Paradox.