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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.

12/06/16

Can the same type of technology Facebook uses to recognize faces also recognize particles?

12/02/16

Construction has begun for the CTA, a discovery machine that will study the highest energy objects and events across the entire sky.

11/29/16

THE Port humanitarian hackathon at CERN brings people from multiple industries together to make the world a better place.

11/17/16

Four physicists discuss Higgs boson research since the discovery.

11/15/16

Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.

11/08/16

Theorists think dark matter was forged in the hot aftermath of the Big Bang.

11/03/16

A theoretical particle that adapts to its surroundings could explain the accelerating expansion of our universe.

10/31/16

What are parallel universes, and why do we think they might exist?