But moral injury as an idea has expanded in recent years to also include the distress caused by a break between one's moral ideas and the reality they live in. It's now become an everyday experience ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

The cosmological constant problem, or the vacuum catastrophe is a discrepency in the observed values of the vaccuum energy ...

In the 1990s, a philosophy professor from Texas built a quiet, unlikely kind of notoriety. Rick Roderick wasn’t filling ...

The cosmological constant has been a problem in physics since Einstein, but new research may show why it takes the value that it does despite quantum fluctuations that should make its value ...

Cosmological expansion is widely treated as a proven fact. It is not proven. For nearly a century, cosmology has told a simple story about a universe that began in a hot, dense state and has been ...

In theory, a universe can come in any shape or size, but scientists prefer to think about three basic kinds of universes: one that’s expanding, one that’s collapsing, and one that stays the same. Out ...

Last year, cosmologists working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) reported hints that the mysterious dark energy thought to be driving the expansion of the universe may be weakening ...

If you imagine the story of the universe as a film endlessly in post-production, cosmologists would be its obsessive editors, constantly tweaking the narrative. The version they are working with is an ...

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos is heading toward a dramatic reversal: after ...

An accessible look at the cosmological constant, why Einstein introduced it, and how it later became central to our understanding of the universe’s expansion. Property owner where Dezi Freeman was ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out dozens of models that attempted to solve it. Reading time 3 minutes The ...