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Fermilab A New Way to Measure the Invisible Substances That Dominate the Universe
The Dark Energy Survey is the start of the next era of cosmology.
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine The Universe Is as Spooky as Einstein Thought
In a brilliant new experiment, physicists have confirmed one of the most mysterious laws of the cosmos.
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Eric King / Quanta Explorers Find Passage to Earth's Dark Age
Geochemical signals from near the planet’s core are beginning to shed light on its first 50 million years, a period long viewed as inaccessible to science.
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Ilvy Njiokiktjien / Quanta Magazine Is the Search for Dark Matter a Wild Goose Chase?
A growing number of physicists think it may be.
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine Back to the Drawing Board for Physics?
Decades of failed predictions show that nature might not work as expected.
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine A Debate Over the Shape of the Invisible Universe
The more astronomers learn about dark matter, the more intriguing it becomes.
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NASA The Trick to Finding Life on Distant Planets
Is oxygen in an exoplanet's atmosphere a sign of living beings, or something more mundane?
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Reporter#7619314 / Demotix / Corbis Nature's Warning Signal
Complex systems like ecological food webs, the brain, and the climate all give off a characteristic signal when disaster is around the corner.
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Christian Charisius / Reuters Physicists and Philosophers Hold Peace Talks
If only for three days
