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From enshittocene to virome, science and technology’s words of 2024
Strembryo Until recently, scientists studying the earliest moments of human development relied on embryos donated by people undergoing…
How fast is the Universe expanding? This astronomer took cosmology closer to an answer
For decades, scientists have disagreed about a fundamental question: how quickly is the Universe expanding? But this year,…
Super-bright black holes could reveal if the universe is pixelated
Artist’s representation of a galaxy with a brilliant quasar at its centre NASA, ESA and J. Olmsted (STScI)…
Einstein’s theories tested on the largest scale ever – he was right
The DESI instrument observing the sky from the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope during a meteor shower KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks…
Existential cosmology: The universe could vanish at any moment – why hasn’t it?
Billions, perhaps trillions, of years from now, long after the sun has engulfed Earth, cosmologists expect the universe…
A unique pair of galactic lenses may help solve a cosmological riddle
The brightest white spots and the red arc are six images of the same quasar created by the…
Accelerated formation of ultra-massive galaxies in the first billion years
Smail, I., Ivison, R. J. & Blain, A. W. A deep sub-millimeter survey of lensing clusters: a new…
Why does our universe have something instead of nothing?
The universe is full of matter Mohd. Afuza/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time…
There may be a cosmic speed limit on how fast anything can grow
Have we found a new limit on the universe? kkssr/Shutterstock A newly proposed cosmic speed limit may constrain…
Signals from exotic new stars could hide in gravitational wave data
We can detect signals from black holes merging – but could we also pick up traces of more…