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# space
We're here for an exciting time, not a long time. And we should use that time doing something fun and constructive.
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Another day, another exercise in nearly unfalsifiable numerology from arXiv...
# science
A trio of physicists want to marry dark matter and antimatter. It's not a union that seems destined for bliss.
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For inflation to remain cosmology's top theory of how the universe grew into what we see today, we need to find the right gravitational waves in experiments ramping up to do just that.
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Continuing the trend of looking too closely to CMBR maps, a group of cosmologists says they found evidence of "bruises" from collisions with other universes.
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Penrose and Gurzadyan respond to their critics without offering anything new for the debate.
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Could we use neutron stars as navigational landmarks when traveling through interstellar space?
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Roger Penrose thinks he discovered traces of previous Big Bangs in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, but his evidence for it seem thin and the consequences are left unaddressed.
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Want to get a good guess as to how old a star is? Just listen to its hum...
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Ads for extrasolar attractions and preemptively naming cities on an alien world are all well and good. But what will it take to really start colonizing a distant planet?