Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, galaxies cluster through gravitational interactions, forming the cosmic web ...
Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego have developed a method for generating highly realistic ...
From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange particle physics can be. Everything in the universe is, quite literally ...