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Economic Cosmology and the Evolutionary Challenge
Our paper discusses three very old “cosmologies” in Western thought, how these play out in economic theory, and how...
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Lopsided Map of the Cosmos Offers New Clues to the Universe’s Origins
If our universe slammed into a neighboring one during a growth spurt in its first second, the collision would...
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New Physics Complications Lend Support to Multiverse Hypothesis
On an overcast afternoon in late April, physics professors and students crowded into a wood-paneled lecture hall at Columbia...
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Funny Things Happen When Space And Time Vanish
Of the many mysteries of modern physics, few compare to “nonlocality” in quantum physics. Nonlocality means that far away...
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Are There Really as Many Neurons in the Human Brain as Stars in the Milky Way?
This is a phrase a lot of science communicators like to use because giving people a sense of scale...
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Time Regained
James Gleick reviews Lee Smolin's new book "Time Reborn" in the New York Review of Books.
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Giant band of galactic gas likely has dual origin
An enormous ribbon of gas that threads through the thinner gas of the Milky Way’s halo is the result...
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An Exploding Star, A Grain of Sand, and an Origin Story
Humans have created some pretty ingenious myths to explain the world around us: the sun and the moon chase...
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Astronomers Discover New Neighbor Galaxy to the Milky Way
In recent years astronomers have extended their view almost to the very edge of the observable universe. With the...
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The Cosmic Gallery – in pictures
From a serene view of planet Earth, through the heart of the Milky Way and out to far-flung galaxies,...