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A diagram illustrating one of the biggest mysteries: the origin of the universe, from the Big Bang and inflation to today, showing the formation of atoms, stars, galaxies, and the ongoing expansion of space.
Our Standard Model of the Universe, for both particle physics and cosmology, remains intact for now. When will its foundations crack?
Book cover for "Cut Through: The Pitch and Presentation Playbook" by Dominic Colenso, featuring Dominic Colenso's name in bold black text on a yellow background with a rightward arrow.
To win over any audience you need to master “cut-through” — former TV and film actor Dominic Colenso wants to give you the secret sauce.
A silhouette of a child stands on a sunlit path in a dense, dark forest with tall trees and foliage surrounding the scene.
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David S. Goyer explains how paying attention to mystery, and not brushing it aside, became the foundation for the way he builds stories, characters, and worlds.
Diagram showing light from a distant galaxy bending around a red-hued massive object, reaching telescopes on Earth via different paths and at different times.
With the observation of SN 2025wny, a lensed superluminous supernova, astronomy's future comes into sharp, exciting focus.
Illustration of various carbon molecules, including buckyballs and graphene sheets, floating in space near a bright cosmic background with stars and nebulae.
It takes a wide variety of processes in the Universe to make all the elements that populate space today. We're still discovering new ones!
A colorful map of the United States with state boundaries replaced by regions labeled with various unrelated names and entities.
In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.
A row of black and blue server racks in a data center, where LLMs power chatbot solutions, with illuminated green lights and a white tile floor with black circular vents.
As technology advances, more opportunities for cheating arise. Large language models aren't posing a new problem; they're how students cheat themselves.