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Can our brains help prove the universe is conscious?
Leading scientists have long pondered how matter gives rise to our subjective experience of reality and believe consciousness could even permeate space and time.
The 1st few seconds of the Big Bang: What we know and what we don't
Opinion Believe it or not, physicists are attempting to understand the universe when it was only a handful of seconds old.
Are primordial black holes really giant gravitinos?
New research proposes that the first black holes came from clumps of gravitinos, exotic, hypothetical particles that managed to survive the first chaotic years of the Big Bang.
Is there more than one dark energy?
What if there is more than one cosmological agent for dark energy? This mixture would have strange effects in our universe, making it potentially detectable with upcoming surveys.
Gargantuan chunk of 'cosmic web' discovered. It's 50 million light-years long.
Astronomers discover one of the longest filaments of the cosmic web. And it may help solve the puzzle of the universe's missing matter.
Weird 'gravitational molecules' could orbit black holes like electrons swirling around atoms
Distant alien planets could be turned into dark matter detectors
A pair of astronomers is advocating a daring new research program: to turn our widening search for life beyond Earth into a hunt for dark matter.
Black holes could become massive particle accelerators
Physicists suggest harnessing the gravitational pull of black holes to create ferocious particle accelerators. The trick? Carefully set everything up so the particles don't get lost forever.
