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Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed a key indicator ...

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The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, was already a challenge to explain with models of the universe due to its incredibly vast size — and now, using the ...

The Hubble tension, a long-standing puzzle in cosmology, arises from conflicting measurements of the universe’s expansion ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, was already a challenge to explain with models of the universe due to its ...