For a quarter century, cosmology has rested on a simple but audacious idea: that a fixed “cosmological constant” drives the ...

Imagine you wanted to know everything you could about the Universe. You'd want to find the answers to questions of all types, such as: What is the Universe made of? How big is the entire Universe? How ...

Hang Su ’23 has always been fascinated by physics and how it helps explain the natural world. Eager to learn as much as she can about how the world works, she hopes to make her own meaningful impact ...

Johns Hopkins University theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski is one of three physicists to be awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their contributions to methods essential for studying the ...

In this special guest feature, Linda Barney writes that researchers at the University of Cambridge are using an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor-based supercomputer from SGI to accelerate discovery efforts.

“Where did we all come from?” is the question Professor Liam McAllister, physics, tries to answer every day. McAllister’s research focuses on string theory, a cutting-edge scientific inquiry that ...

Have you ever fancied the idea that somewhere out there, there's another you? That in a faraway mirrored universe, there's another version of yourself. The mirror universe is usually an interest in ...

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