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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.

09/15/15

The Higgs doesn’t quite fit in with the other particles of the Standard Model of particle physics.

09/09/15

Scientists hope to use neutrino experiments to watch a black hole form.

09/03/15

How do you get to work when your office is a clean room a mile below ground?

08/27/15

Theorists from the Institute for Advanced Study have proposed a way forward in the quest to test string theory.

08/25/15

Exploding stars have an immense capacity to destroy—and create.

08/20/15

Scientist Marcelle Soares-Santos talks about Brazil, neutron stars and a love of discovery.

08/18/15

How can we figure out when the universe began?

08/12/15

What’s it like being the machinist at the deepest machine shop in the world?