In every bit of nothing, there is something. If you zoom in on empty space and take out all the planets and stars and galaxies, you might expect a pure vacuum, but you’d be wrong. In­stead you would ...
The universe has been dominated by starlight for the past 13 billion years or so — most of its history. But for the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, there were no stars yet. These ...
The international collaboration n_TOF, in which a group of University of Seville researchers participated, has made use of the unique capacities of three of the world's nuclear facilities, such as PSI ...
The long-standing problem of the cosmological constant, described both as “the worst prediction in the history of physics” and by Einstein as his “biggest blunder”, is being tackled with renewed ...
The cosmological constant is presumably an enigmatic form of matter or energy that acts in opposition to gravity and is considered by many physicists to be equivalent to dark energy. Nobody really ...
For the first time, lithium has been identified and measured in the atmosphere of a white dwarf. The finding provides clues for what's become of the lithium expected from the Big Bang. For the first ...
PROF. M. N. SAHA, in his presidential address to the Indian Science Congress at Bombay delivered on January 2, dealt chiefly with fundamental cosmo-logical problems. He believes that recent ...
An international research group has tried to find a solution to one of the unknowns in the current description of the Big Bang. Different nuclear reactions responsible for the creation and destruction ...