While the Big Bang Theory is widely supported within the scientific community, some researchers propose alternative ideas, such as eternal inflation or a cyclical, oscillating universe.

One of the most popular science fiction tropes in movies and TV, right up there with time travel and extraterrestrial life, is the idea of parallel universes or alternate universes. The concept of ...

And in that alternate universe, Hitler was always killed by a time-traveling assassin from another universe. When you return to the future, you come back home, with an unchanged past. The many ...

Now, researchers in Switzerland and the U.K. have homed in on one particular aspect of this equation to contemplate how a crucial component of our universe affects star formation and, by extension ...

The movie will be directed by Ulrike Ottinger and was co-written by Ottinger and Elfriede Jelinek, the acclaimed author of "The Piano Teacher." Magnify has boarded “The Blood Countess,” a ...

The universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous—and highly debated—results had shown: The universe is expanding faster than predicted ...

Alternative investments provide diversification but come with higher risks and costs. Lack of transparency and liquidity in alternatives contribute to volatile prices and longer selling times ...

Its detailed records of brightness and redshift offer unparalleled insights into how the universe has evolved, providing a critical testing ground for alternative theories to the standard ...

What is the structure of our physical reality? Physicists have long imagined space and time interweaving into “space-time”, the metaphorical fabric that underlies the cosmos. But there may be ...

For example, we do now know that habitable environments are very common in the universe. It is reasonable to generalize from here to a truly gargantuan number of habitable environments across the ...

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