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Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals ...

A new device for creating individual "phonons" — vibrational quanta — could give rise to the acoustic equivalent of lasers.

Spread the loveIn a remarkable advancement in cosmic cartography, researchers at Ohio State University have unveiled a ...

Astronauts report feeling profoundly awestruck when they go to space, an anthropologist reports. This experience shapes their ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument spent five years observing the sky from Arizona. Now, researchers have a trove of ...

Recent surveys hint that the rate of cosmic expansion changes dramatically over time; if that's true, then the universe could ...

A record-breaking 3D map of the universe is now complete, giving scientists a new way to study dark energy. The massive ...

And an international team of physicists appears to have found just such a loophole: the only thing that goes faster than ...

Scientists at Heriot‑Watt University have demonstrated in a world-first, that light can be used to control every aspect of how electromagnetic waves oscillate, opening new technological frontiers.

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A squad of new AI algorithms called GAME could help astrophysicists take a more accurate reading of the universe’s behavior, ...