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Big Bang, Big Chill, Big Freeze, Big Rip, quantum tunneling, cosmic microwave background radiation, metric expansion of the universe, cosmic inflation, redshift, Doppler effect, metastable valley, Hubble constant, cosmological constant, Quintessence, dark energy, gravity, general theory of relativity,

Why Won’t the Gravity of Galaxies Keep Our Universe From Expanding?

Ronak Gupta 18/11/2019

About five billion years ago, the universe switched gears...

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The ‘Crazy’ Quest for the Ghosts of Universes Past and Present

Ronak Gupta 23/09/2018

Did other universes exist before ours? And if they...

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Infinite in All Directions: Singularities in Science, Absolute Hot and Others

Vasudevan Mukunth 01/09/2018

Every day we get more proof that primacy may...

Through poems and creation myths, the metaphor of the sea seems evermore to be passing into actuality. Credit: Pexels/pixabay

The Sea, the Sea! The Primordial Metaphor That Has Stayed With Science

Binit Priyaranjan 30/08/2018

The progress of scientific knowledge has revealed a cluster...

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Cosmology Without Philosophy Is like a Ship Without a Hull

Bridget Falck 05/08/2018

The cosmological principle is fundamental to our understanding of...

An artist's impression of the universe's first stars, embedded in a sea of gas, with the cosmic microwave background radiation depicted along the edges. Credit: N.R. Fuller, National Science Foundation

Ancient Starlight Trapped in Cosmic Gas Offers Clues About Universe’s Firstborn Suns

Sandhya Ramesh 06/03/2018

… and with that, dark matter is not far...

Statues at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics. Credit: IUCAA

Interview: LIGO’s Role in Founding a New Ethic Among Indian Scientists

Scharada Dubey 11/09/2016

Tarun Souradeep on the LIGO India collaboration, and whether...