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Keith Cooper explores rival theories, ambitious experiments and the ongoing race to understand why so much of the universe is invisible
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Savan Kharel reviews Simulating the Cosmos: Why the Universe Looks the Way It Does by Romeel Davé
Read article: Dark matter vs modified gravity: which team are you on?
Two researchers who have switched sides in this heated cosmic debate
Read article: Cosmic combat: delving into the battle between dark matter and modified gravity
Keith Cooper digs into the struggles and successes of modifying gravity, 40 years since its conception
Read article: Ask me anything: Xavier Calmet – ‘Scientific intuition is crucial. Either you have it, or you don’t’
Calmet's work encompasses a broad “wavefunction” of physics, with a particular focus on quantum gravity and black holes
Read article: ‘Alice rings’ spotted in a Bose–Einstein condensate
Laboratory experiment could shed light on cosmological questions
Read article: JWST finds ‘smoking gun’ evidence of early galaxies transforming the universe
Distant quasar sheds light on the reionization of the cosmos
Read article: Ask me anything: Clare Burrage – ‘We look for connections between different areas of physics, but it is impossible for anyone to be an expert across it all’
Clare Burrage is a cosmologist at the University of Nottingham, and winner of the 2023 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in the UK in Physical Sciences and Engineering
Read article: ‘I see a piece of myself in every student that I’ve mentored, and we motivate each other’ – Wen-fai Fong on supporting the next generation of astronomers
Wen-fai Fong talks to Rob Lea about shaping the future of astronomy
Read article: Galactic remnant of the universe’s ‘dark ages’ is rotating, say astronomers
Tell-tale signs of rotation show up in redshifted light from distant galaxy JD1
