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A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

What if the famous P vs NP problem isn’t just about algorithms but about the observers trying to solve them? Research ...

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In search of a united scientific theory, a new quantum gravity paper might have proposed an interesting aspect that made the ...

A researcher identified gamma ray emissions that appear to have originated from dark matter, but other physicists still ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

Scientists may have "seen" dark matter for the first time, thanks to NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. If so, this ...

For decades, scientists have only inferred dark matter’s existence through its gravitational pull on galaxies, but may now ...