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Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma — the first matter ever to be present — during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Their findings provide a piece of the puzzle to the evolution of the universe, as we know it today. About 14 billio...

A new type of gravitational wave detector to find tennis ball-sized black holes straight out of the Big Bang. “Detecting primordial black holes opens up new perspectives to understand the origin of the Universe, because these still hypothetical black holes are supposed to have formed just a fe...

Researchers mapped the 3.8-billion-year history of protein domains, revealing a “big bang” of combinations that spurred complex life. Proteins have been quietly taking over our lives since the COVID-19 pandemic began. We’ve been living at the whim of the virus’s so-called “spike” protein, which has ...

Rather than being created solely during supernova explosions, chemical elements could also be produced deep within the Earth’s lower mantle. It has long been theorized that hydrogen, helium, and lithium were the only chemical elements in existence during the Big Bang when the universe formed, ...

A new measurement of the lithium-7 destruction reaction shows rates much lower than expected, clarifying nuclear uncertainties in the Big Bang’s lithium problem. Recently, an international research team successfully updated the 7Li(d,n)24He reaction rate based on the latest experimental data, which ...

Stephen Hawking’s final research, developed with Thomas Hertog and published in 2018, challenges the conventional Big Bang theory by suggesting the universe is finite and simpler than previously thought. Based on string theory and holography, their work argues against the idea of an eternally ...

Theories about the universe’s origin and ultimate fate often center on how matter could emerge from nothing. Through an exploration of theoretical constructs like the Planck epoch and quantum fluctuations, alongside Roger Penrose’s conformal cyclic cosmology, a picture is painted of a un...

Can machine learning be used to uncover the secrets of the quark-gluon plasma? Yes — but only with sophisticated new methods. It could hardly be more complicated: tiny particles whir around wildly with extremely high energy, countless interactions occur in the tangled mess of quantum particles, and ...

What Is the Big Bang? The Big Bang is the popular name for the moment in time when the Universe started. The term ‘Big Bang’ is often taken to refer to the instant that our Universe began, and it evokes the idea that our Universe started with a literal explosion. In fact, the Big Bang [...]

Urbanization drives linear thinking and less pro-environmental behavior, while systems thinking is linked to suburban life. A new study that highlights a sharp contrast between urban and suburban ways of thinking about coastal ecosystems has been completed by researchers at the National Institute of...

According to astrophysicists, cosmic inflation – a point in the Universe’s infancy when space-time expanded exponentially, and what physicists really refer to when they talk about the ‘Big Bang’ – can in principle be ruled out in an assumption-free way. “Is it possible in principle to test cosmic in...