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It is no great wonder if in the long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur.” — Plutarch “I’ve been looking for you my ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

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The "Cosmic Grapes" galaxy formed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, revealing a never-before-seen structure.

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

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An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...