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The Case for Putting Aside Dark Energy to Reevaluate General Relativity

David Wiltshire and Alan Coley 30/06/2017

If dark energy is just a grand illusion –...

Galaxy NGC 1398, photographed by the Dark Energy Survey. Credit: uclmaps/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Centennial: Einstein’s Desperate Mistake, the Cosmological Constant

Vasudevan Mukunth 09/02/2017

There are multiple implications of the cosmological constant that...

All theories can and should be refined by new experiments, and this leads to new, testable predictions. A macro photo of a Romanesco broccoli. Credit: Nicolas Raymond/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Crosstalk: A Toast To Scientific Theories, Laws and Modelling

Sunil Laxman 28/01/2017

It's important to appreciate why a future in biological...

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Remembering C.V. Vishveshwara, the Quasimodo of Black Holes

Parameswaran Ajith 20/01/2017

Vishveshwara inspired several generations of Indian physicists. Many of...

A computer simulation shows two neutron stars, the extremely dense cores of now-dead stars, smashing into each other to form a blackhole. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (quantum)

Has LIGO Actually Proved Einstein Wrong – and Found Signs of Quantum Gravity?

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/12/2016

Three physicists have predicted that finding 'echoes' of gravitational...

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Interview: Sanjeev Dhurandhar, a Doyen of Gravitational Wave Physics in India

Scharada Dubey 08/08/2016

Sanjeev Dhurandhar is one of the giants of gravitational...

An image of Jupiter's diverse clouds taken by the New Horizons probe in 2007 (then en route to pluto). Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI

NASA Juno Scientists Keen on Studying Water on Jupiter

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/07/2016

In a reddit AMA, scientists said that studying the...