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Studying the universe’s origins hint that its beginning has no end

Studying the universe’s origins hint that its beginning has no end

27 November 2019

The cosmos is stranger than we ever imagined and new bubbles of space-time may pop up and grow continuously with no beginning or end, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The main spectrometer of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment

The mystery of the mass of the neutrino could soon be solved

22 November 2019

We have a refined estimate for the mass of the neutrino, the most abundant massive particle in the Universe: its mass is 500,000 times less than an electron
Red Deer Stags at the rut

Grand unified game theory can represent all two-player games

20 November 2019

Game theory helps calculate the probabilities of an outcome in adversarial situations, and we use several games as models – but now there’s one that can cover many situations

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