Theorists seek dark matter in hot neutron stars
Cosmology and dark energy revealed by geometry of galaxy pairs
Is it now or never for dark matter WIMPs?
Cheap and cheerful gravity wave detector on the horizon
Astronomy and particle physics race to replace Standard Model
A short history of the history of the Universe
Recent observations show dark matter unobserved again
One of the things that isn't widely advertised in science is that progress often looks a bit like this video—things get done, but the results are rarely quite what you expect. A...
General relativity passes a large scale test
General relativity, our current best understanding of gravity, has passed yet another test—this time on a much larger length scale. Ever since relativity's first confirmation in 1919, when Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington observed that the light from...
Physicists look for the arrow of time, biologists find it
One of the nice things about being in the science writing business for a while is that, even when the science of a given topic doesn't make a whole lot of sense,...
Standard candle supernovae the product of colliding dwarfs
In cosmology, a special type of supernovae, known as a standard candle, is used to help determine distances on cosmological length scales. These standard candles were what revealed that the expansion of the universe...
Speculating about the Universe as a quantum fluid
The first thing that struck me about Hitoshi Murayama was that he certainly did not fit the stereotype of a Japanese presenter—he's relaxed, eloquent, and clearly very, very excited about his work....
Two events hint at impact of dark matter particles
There's a chance that today will go down as the day of the first announcement that we've detected the presence of particles of dark matter. Two talks from members of the...
