July 11, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend ...

By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.

Astronomers spend much of their time mapping the universe, but until now their results have been collected and archived in so ...

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a ...

Our universe appears flat—but this observation still leaves plenty of options for its true shape. In fact, our cosmos could resemble a donut What shape is the universe? This question is far more ...

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Eventually, the universe will end. And it won’t be pretty. The universe is expanding at an accelerating clip, and that evolution, physicists expect, will lead the cosmos to a conclusion. Scientists ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

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