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A Possible Crisis in the Cosmos Could Lead to a New Understanding of the Universe
Back in the mid-1990s, cosmologists—who study the origin, composition and structure of the universe—were beginning to worry that they were…
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JWST should soon glimpse the very first stars born after the big bang
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of actively forming stars like this pair, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, as…
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How Seeing the Milky Way Helped Us Discover the Whole Universe
The universe is filled with immense structures of mind-crushing proportions. They wield energies that dwarf our most fevered dreams. Yet…
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Quantum Theory’s ‘Measurement Problem’ May Be a Poison Pill for Objective Reality
Imagine a physicist observing a quantum system whose behavior is akin to a coin toss: it could come up heads…
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Researchers Use Quantum ‘Telepathy’ to Win an ‘Impossible’ Game
To win at the card game of bridge, which is played between two sets of partners, one player must somehow…
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The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It
One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half century is that the universe is not locally real. “Real,”…
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