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‘Law and the Multiverse’ Considers Superheroes, Legalities

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Would the X-Men’s Scott Summers qualify for workplace protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act? (Probably). Is it illegal to attempt to reveal a superhero’s secret identity? Likely, as the courts have held that a right to privacy includes “emotional solitude.” Just how hard would it be to get insurance against the super-villains who keep […]

Does God exist? Can science really disprove that?

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Despite the cartoons that her dad draws to illustrate his work — in this case, the theory of cosmic strings — Alina Simone still can't figure it out.

Even when your dad’s a physicist, it’s hard to wrap your head around the Big Bang discovery

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Despite the cartoons that her dad draws to illustrate his work — in this case, the theory of cosmic strings — Alina Simone still can't figure it out.

Even when your dad’s a physicist, it’s hard to wrap your head around the Big Bang discovery

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New Super Camera Seeks Answers to the Mystery of Dark Energy

Planck satellite scientists release picture of early universe

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Scientists from the European Space Agency’s Planck Surveyor satellite have mapped cosmic imprints from the earliest moments in the universe. The findings help explain what the universe was like seconds after the Big Bang.

Deep space photos offer a panoramic view of the universe

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Last week, astronomers based in the Atacama desert in Chile released the widest deep view of the sky ever made using infrared light. The image reveals more than 200,000 galaxies and offers viewers a chance to look back in time to the early years of the universe.

Discovering dark matter

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We could be on the verge of solving one of the biggest cosmological mysteries in our time — the discovery of dark matter.

Have Scientists Finally Found Dark Matter?

Dark matter makes up more than 80 percent of the matter in the universe. But up until now, it’s eluded scientists. Yesterday, however, NASA announced a possible breakthrough. A particle detector mounted on the International Space Station may have detected dark matter. The detector is called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and it measures cosmic ray […]

Our ‘Unstable’ Universe Could Be Wiped Out by a New One

The recent discovery of the Higgs Boson has produced some unfathomable – and frightening – modes of thought in the world of astrophysics. A new idea coming out of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has our universe being swallowed up by a new universe born out of an […]