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Keep an open mind on dark matter and rivals that do away with it

The hunt for dark matter particles has been fruitless and expensive, so it’s encouraging that fresh competing theories are being taken more seriously

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Physics

How dark matter lost its shine for me

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Rules of attraction: Why it's time to rethink how gravity works

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Technology

Cooling to absolute zero mathematically outlawed after a century

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Celebrate pi day with 9 trillion more digits than ever before

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Could fast radio bursts really be powering alien space ships?

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Could fast radio bursts really be powering alien space ships?

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Fuzzy pulsars orbiting black holes could unmask quantum gravity

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The string-loop theory that might finally untangle the universe

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Space

Oldest, biggest black holes may have come from enormous stars

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Your skull is an amazing physics lab

Some of the greatest breakthroughs have happened in thought experiments – and they're still the only way to play with black holes, says physicist Sean Carroll

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Technology

How to dust a telescope’s 78-square-metre mirror with CO₂

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Health

To advance science we need to think about the impossible

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Are there antimatter worlds out there?

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Does time go both ways?

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