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How did the universe come into existence, and what early processes shaped everything that followed? A new study published in Physical Review Research takes aim at this fundamental question. Scientists from Spain and Italy have introduced a model that reimagines what happened moments after the universe was born. Their approach could upend long-standing ideas about the forces and events that …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of a planet orbiting a white dwarf star. New research hints that planets like these may have more hope for hosting life than previously thought. | Credit: ASA/JPL-Caltech The planets around white dwarf stars might provide long-term homes for alien life, …

The planets around white dwarf stars might provide long-term homes for alien life, but they suffer from a fatal overheating problem. Who’s going to rescue them? According to new research, it’s none other than Albert Einstein. White dwarfs are the compact remnants of dead sun-like stars. They litter the universe, with the Milky Way alone home to hundreds of millions …

The method, known as Stereo-seq V2, may allow scientists to analyze preserved brain tissue at the cellular level, raising questions about whether genius can be decoded biologically. The technique, presented in the journal Cell, was developed by researchers at BGI-Research. It proposes a more efficient way to study historical samples, and may one day enable scientists to examine what made …

The gravitational lensing not only splits the light source, but magnifies it, allowing a detailed view of the light source behind the lens. Thanks to this, the team says that HerS-3 appears to be a bright starburst galaxy—a galaxy undergoing explosive star formation—and was formed at a time when star formation was at its peak throughout the universe. HerS-3 also …

IN A NUTSHELL 🔭 Scientists detected a brief gravitational signal, suggesting the potential existence of a wormhole. 🌌 The signal, known as GW190521, challenges current understandings of space-time and relativity. 🌀 Researchers propose that the signal could be a gravitational echo from a collapsing wormhole. The discovery could revolutionize theories of general relativity and cosmology. In May 2019, a peculiar …

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are some holes in Einstein’s theory, including some gravitational weirdness around low acceleration “wide binary” stars. A study claims that the behavior of these …

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are some holes in Einstein’s theory, including some gravitational weirdness around low acceleration “wide binary” stars. A study claims that the behavior of these …

The evidence for the Big Bang is overwhelming, but we cannot describe what goes on in that event. We can’t accurately call it a moment; time as we know it did not exist. Our science stops making sense a fraction of a second after it happened. The equations simply do not work. But what if there was a way to …

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. There’s an old saying that everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. The idea behind this sentiment is that we might disagree on the importance we assign to various aspects of …