NASA graphic showing the timeline of the universe. Image via NASA. ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. An international team of researchers has uncovered first-of-its-kind evidence from near the beginning of the universe that helps resolve a fundamental question about the cosmos. The researchers reported collecting the first […]
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An Ancient Space Crystal May Have Just Rewritten the History of the Moon
Image: LeonardoFernndezLzaro / 500px via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. In a revelation that could rewrite the early history of the Moon, a team of scientists have determined that the Moon is about 40 million years older than previously known by studying ancient crystals brought back […]
Read MoreMind-Blowing New Law of Physics Could Mean We Really Live in a Simulation, Physicist Proposes
Image: EDUARD MUZHEVSKYI / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Are we living in a simulation? It’s a trippy idea that has inspired many classic tales, from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave to The Matrix franchise, but it is also increasingly becoming a […]
Read MoreScientists May Have Solved a Baffling Mystery at the Dawn of the Universe
Image: AARON M. GELLER, NORTHWESTERN, CIERA + IT-RCDS ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Scientists have presented a compelling explanation for a mysterious population of radiant galaxies that existed in an era known as “cosmic dawn,” which elapsed between 100 million years to one billion years after the […]
Read MoreThe artist who sculpted the 4-dimensional fabric of space and time
Williams Bay, WI – Outside the Yerkes Observatory, a gravitationally warped slice of our universe sits in the grass. This distorted block wasn’t transported to our planet from the depths of outer space, however; it comes from the mind of Ashley Zelinskie, whose mission it is to take elusive intricacies of the cosmos and turn […]
Read MoreSomething Mysterious Appears to Be Suppressing the Universe’s Growth, Scientists Say
Artist’s depiction of the cosmic web. Image: Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Something unknown appears to be suppressing the growth of the gargantuan structures that connect the universe in a cosmic web, a finding that challenges our current understanding of physics, according to […]
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