More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

A new study questions dark energy's role in the universe's acceleration, suggesting it may be weakening instead.

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), those years amount to nearly 20—and now the ...

Three papers published in JCAP presenting the sixth and final data release of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer a new map of the “infant” Universe, confirm the “Hubble tension,” and rule out a set ...

To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in the sky. But no one knows whether the ...

Confucian cosmology was never about superstition. Its real power lay in de-centering authority – binding rulers to a higher standard they couldn’t control. The statue at Fan Zhongyan’s tomb site in ...

Emiko Ohnuki-Tiernay discusses rice's profound cultural significance in Japan, tracing its historical roots from ancient agriculture to its role in shaping national identity. Despite challenges like ...

If a comet flies in front of a star later this year, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be watching. With the release of its first 3,200-megapixel images, Rubin, an astronomy and astrophysics facility ...

It all started with a big bang has been the commonly accepted origin story of our universe for decades. But what if it’s wrong? What if, before starting 13 billion years ago as a tiny ball of ...

Is the universe really uniform? A recent study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) explores this fundamental question using an innovative technique based on the ...

Comparing composite models for multi-component observational data is a prevalent scientific challenge. When fitting composite models, there exists the potential for systematics from a poor fit of one ...