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The freckled universe

05/06/25

Madeleine O’Keefe

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.

03/14/19

Scientists around the world are testing ways to further boost the power of particle accelerators while drastically shrinking their size.

03/12/19

Science writer Sibusiso Biyela aims to bring science back to South Africa’s Zulu communities.

03/05/19

The story of the latest experiment approved for installation at the Large Hadron Collider starts with a theorist and a question about dark matter.

02/26/19

Some of this science sounds awfully familiar.

02/22/19

One sprinkle of sand at a time, two artists recreated the moment a particle passed through a detector 30 years earlier.

02/19/19

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will manage unprecedented volumes of data produced each night.

02/14/19

Every second, the universe grows a little bigger. Scientists are using the LHC to try to find out why.

02/12/19

For physicists Katy Grimm and Katharine Leney, science is a piece of cake.