UK beats Italy to host SKA headquarters
Giant radio telescope's HQ will be at Jodrell Bank, despite a "compelling" bid from its rival
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ALMA debuts its high-resolution results
Radio telescope makes new discoveries in its long-baseline configuration
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‘Cosmic shear’ reveals dark matter in new high-resolution map
Large-scale map from the Dark Energy Survey pinpoints clumps and filaments
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Gravitational lensing creates ‘Einstein’s cross’ of distant supernova
Four images of a supernova could probe general relativity and rate of cosmic expansion
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Between the lines
Tasneem Zehra Husain’s imaginative physics-history novel Only the Longest Threads and Peter Adey’s ramble through Air: Nature and Culture, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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Quasar spectrum shines a new light on unchanged fundamental constants
Results hint at the static nature of the dark-energy field
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Could the Sun be trapping asymmetric dark matter?
New model could help settle discrepancies between theory and observational solar data
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Decoding the dark arts of Interstellar’s black hole
Hollywood astrophysics and the perplexing case of a flickering black hole
Dark matter seen in the Milky Way’s core
Astronomers provide the first direct evidence that dark matter abounds in the inner part of our galaxy
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Planck pins down the end of the cosmic ‘dark ages’
Star formation began 100 million years later than previously thought
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