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In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

Astronomers have known for decades that the universe is expanding. When they use telescopes to observe faraway galaxies, they see that these galaxies are moving away from Earth. To astronomers, the ...

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable ...

Astronomers have proposed a new theory to suggest why our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. That our universe is expanding is in wide agreement, though how exactly that process happens is ...

A new study has suggested that the idea of our universe being a simulation does not hold up at all, and it’s not because of a ...

“If confirmed, this would have profound implications for the fate of the universe,” said The Guardian. The study raises the ...

There are gazillions of different possible universes that can be described and understood using the tools provided by string ...

A team of physicists led by Mir Faizal argues the universe cannot be simulated, saying reality includes non-computable truths beyond any algorithm or AI model ...

The cosmological constant, which explains how and why the universe is expanding, has been previously described by astrophysicists as “the worst prediction in the history of physics” due to its ...

In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, "The Matrix," a computer hacker named Neo finds that ...