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In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

A new study broadens the horizon of knowledge about how matter behaves under extreme conditions and helps to solve some great unknowns about the origin of the universe. An international team of ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

A comprehensive review explores how particles containing heavy quarks (known as charm and bottom hadrons) interact in a hot, dense environment called hadronic matter. The authors have published a ...