According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human ...

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales simultaneously—ranging from hundreds down to fractions of a megaelectronvolt. A new study demonstrates that these drastically different scales can be ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The Many-Worlds Interpretation Proposed by physicist Hugh Everett in 1957, the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics is as mind-boggling as it is fascinating. It suggests that all ...

String theory suggests that the universe is far more complex than we ever imagined. What if the fabric of reality is woven through 11 dimensions? Could this explain dark matter, quantum mechanics ...

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It's all thanks to multi-object spectroscopy, which measures the redshift of these galaxies, and hence the distance to them in an expanding universe, in an observed volume of space. With such ...