To protect their kings, ancient Mesopotamians discovered how to predict eclipses, which were associated with the deaths of rulers. This eventually led to the birth of astronomy.
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Eclipses have long fascinated and intrigued people, and anticipation of the total solar eclipse on April 8 is no exception. The beauty, history, mythology and science of eclipses justify the hype.
Observations during historical solar eclipses confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravity, and led to the predictions of black holes.
Quantum computing has huge promise from a technical perspective, but the practical benefits are less clear.
The pros and pitfalls of this type of thinking
The nature of dark energy remains one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology.
Pictures of black holes have a white outline around them when photographed, due to one of black holes’ unique and key features.
Art and science combine in this engineering course to let students turn their brainwaves into creative works.
The discussions in the committee are always open, frank and sometimes emotional, but never hostile.
The gravitational field can affect space and time: the stronger gravity is, the slower time moves. This prediction of General Relativity can be used to reveal hidden forces acting on dark matter.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity suggests that our universe originated in a Big Bang. But black holes, and their gravitational forces, challenge the limits of Einstein’s work.
A new hypothesis suggests that the universe may be twice as old as we had believed. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope provide new information on the rate of the universe’s expansion.
Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained evaluators who didn’t know in advance that some had been completed by AI.
The United States and Russia, the two biggest nuclear powers, have no imminent plans for talks on a nuclear deal. That should change, writes a former US diplomat.
The trailer for ‘Oppenheimer’ fails to include female physicists, which is indicative of a broader media trend that, if reversed, could lead to greater gender diversity in science.
Bright, flickering galaxies called quasars were thought to pose a problem for our understanding of the cosmos – but new research shows Einstein was right yet again.
Upgrades to the hardware and software of the advanced observatory should allow astrophysicists to detect much fainter gravitational waves than before.
Your experience of time is relative because it depends on motion – more specifically, your speed and acceleration.
Black holes can have a mass equivalent to that of millions of suns. Other, smaller, black holes can combine the mass of Mount Everest into the size of an atom.
Nothing is harder to find than you might think.
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Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Astrophysics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow, Monash University
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Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the Big Questions Institute at UNSW, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Bishop's University
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South African Research Chair in Physical Cosmology, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town
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Reader in Astrophysics, Keele University
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Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University
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