An inventory of cosmological mysteries
Laura Hiscott reviews What’s Eating the Universe and Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies
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LIGO gravitational-wave signal backs up Hawking’s area theorem
Prediction made by the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking 40 years ago receives observational support
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Galactic ‘bridges’ could be the largest rotating structures ever discovered
New research suggests that filaments of matter connecting one galaxy to another may be spinning
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A new generation takes on the cosmological constant
The long-standing physics problem is being tackled with renewed vigour by today’s cosmologists. Rob Lea investigates
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Rudiments of reality
Philip Ball reviews Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
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Big data meets Beethoven’s metronome, astronomy gets a badass new acronym
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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Little book, big science
David Appell reviews The Little Book of Cosmology by Lyman Page
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Microwave anomalies strengthen the case for loop quantum cosmology, say physicists
Tiny features of a ‘Big Bounce’ led to universe-size anomalies today
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A flat-Earth fight, an inconsistent Hubble constant, and carbon atoms at a graphene ‘watering hole’
Debates over the shape of the Earth and the rate of the universe's expansion have a very different feel
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Hubble trouble, fighting ‘flat-Earthers’ and blue lasers for batteries: the July 2020 edition of Physics World is now out
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