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A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

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The highest energy neutrino ever detected from space may finally have an origin story. Mathematical analyses suggest that the ghost particle could’ve come from a theoretical object known as a ...

Why do humans have a taste for alcohol? The answer may go back millions of years. It's called the drunken monkey hypothesis. Humans get their alcoholic appetite from primate ancestors, and UC Berkeley ...

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, showers of radiation, and even the building blocks of gold and platinum.

Long baleen whale mothers are more likely to have female calves than males, according to a new study led by the University of Washington. The findings contradict a popular evolutionary hypothesis ...

Cool and creative Building a superradiant neutrino laser would be a significant challenge. (Courtesy: iStock/Vitacops) Radioactive atoms in a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) could form a “superradiant ...

A neutrino sensor array, ARCA, lines the Mediterranean seafloor near Sicily. A physicist took ARCA’s first huge win to a warm audience at the Neutrino 2024 conference. The highly energetic neutrino ...

Not every day does a particle from the outskirts of the universe crash through the Earth, lighting up thousands of detectors far beneath the ocean. But in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of ...