The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

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When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living on a flat plane. After all, this is why you can navigate a new city using a map: a flat piece of paper that represents ...

This story is part of our Cosmic Perspective series, in which we confront the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it. Read the rest of the series here. In a sense, we are at the centre ...

Dark matter and gas in the universe. There may be more dark matter than we think. Credit: Illustris, CC BY-SA No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word.

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Mathematics and physics share a close, reciprocal relationship. Mathematics offers the language and tools to describe physical phenomena, while physics drives the development of new mathematical ideas ...

For measuring curvature of 3D (hyper) surface we need solid angles instead of plane angles. General relativity (GR), which explains events on the greatest cosmological scale, and quantum mechanics (QM ...

My dad is a chemist and physicist. I’m a psychologist. Over the years, our conversations have inspired me to think about the cosmos and consciousness. I’ve concluded the mind is a manifestation of the ...

The universe may be vast, but researchers have multiple points of evidence that reveal its shape.