Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany, and has published more than eighty research articles about the foundations of physics, including quantum ...

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The universe's expansion means its size is bigger than its age suggests. The universe's expansion doesn't have a speed limit like objects within it. Distant galaxies move away from us as space itself ...

Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as ...

Many astronomers have wondered where the center of the universe is. If the Big Bang created the entire observable universe, then it stands to reason that the event had a point of origin. As it turns ...

The official Facebook page of Miss Universe received tens of thousands of angry reactions after Mexico's 25-year-old representative Fatima Bosch was announced the winner on Friday. Fatima Bosch, ...

In an interview released a few weeks after the Miss Universe 2025 finale, MUO president Raul Rocha allegedly implied that Olivia Yacé's visa restrictions might have prevented her from winning the ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Is the universe infinite? It's one of the most profound questions we can ask, and here's the short answer: We don't know. While we have learned a great deal about the universe, a portion of the cosmos ...

The universe is literally everything, the sum of all existence. It includes all matter, like stars and galaxies. The universe also includes all radiation and all other forms of energy. No matter where ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Was there ever any choice in the Universe being as it is? Albert Einstein could have been wondering about this when he remarked to mathematician Ernst Strauss: “What I’m really interested in is ...