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The Daily Galaxy promotes a paper with demonstratively erroneous conclusions about the age of the universe, and very sketchy origins.
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The results of the biannual scientific literacy survey conducted by the National Science Foundation are so embarrassing, the organization felt the need to censor some of the results.
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Creationists and theologians often call the Big Bang theory an origin story for atheists. But that comparison ignores the easily confirmed evidence that it more than likely happened.
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Young Earth creationists demand scientists produce the "missing antimatter" from the Big Bang or scrap the theory altogether.
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No matter what we try, we can't get around the need for dark matter in our equations and observations.
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A pair of new telescopes are ready to look further into the dawn of our universe than we've ever seen before.
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A new paper shows that far from requiring precise physics to exist, matter as we know it can form within a relatively wide range of tolerances.
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How do we know what happened billions of years ago in distant galaxies? Because physics only lets us see the past.