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New Measurements of the Big Bang's Afterglow Prove Einstein Right Again

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope used measurements of the cosmic microwave background to test Einstein's theory of gravity.

Inverse

Great Mysteries of Physics: do we really need a theory of everything?

Finding a theory of everything – explaining all the forces and particles in the universe – is arguably the holy grail of physics. While each of its main theories works extraordinarily well, they clash also with each other – leaving physicists to search for a deeper, more fundamental theory.

The Conversation

Einstein was right about invisible dark matter, massive new map of the universe suggests

Light produced just 380,000 years after the Big Bang was warped by the universe's dark matter exactly the way Einstein predicted it would be.

LiveScience

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Since the late 19th century, adventurous female 'eclipse chasers' have contributed to science in Australia

A total solar eclipse is a remarkable alignment of our Sun, Earth and the Moon, as the latter casts a perfect shadow across the former.

The Conversation

Rail route of the month: a tram ride along the Belgian coast

Our slow travel expert explores the world’s longest tram route, a cinematic journey through Belgium’s dunescapes and quirky seaside towns

The Guardian - UK

‘The miracle that disrupts order’: mathematicians invent new ‘einstein’ shape

Called ‘the hat’, the 13-sided shape can be arranged in a tile formation such that it never forms a repeating grid

The Guardian - US

Newly discovered 'einstein' tile is a 13-sided shape that solves a decades-old math problem

A new 13-sided shape is the first example of an elusive "einstein" — a single shape that can be tiled infinitely without repeating a pattern.

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Parton Church could be turned into visitor centre celebrating scientist who inspired Einstein

Parton Community Council are at a potential new use for the village kirk, which they believe is set to close

Daily Record

Gargantuan black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun is one of the largest ever discovered

Astronomers used gravitational lensing and supercomputers to identify the colossal black hole, which is among the largest ever found.

LiveScience

National Puppy Day: Celebrities share their furry friends

Comedian Russell Brand is among those who have showed off their pooches online

Evening Standard

Why does time change when traveling close to the speed of light? A physicist explains

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

The Conversation

Schoolgirl, 12, records higher IQ score than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking

Bright Anwita Patil amazed her parents after excelling in the Mensa test

Wales Online

Girl, 12, with higher IQ than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking accepted into Mensa

Anwita Patil was 11 when she took the test with Mensa, the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world - she received a score of 162 while Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking were believed to have IQs of 160

Daily Mirror

Baffled by black holes? Confused by quantum theory? Explaining the universe one small step at a time

Science writer Marcus Chown breaks down the mysteries of the universe into manageable chunks

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Manchester Evening News

'My daughter's 12 and has an IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking'

Anwita's mathematician mum decided there was something unusual happening when her little girl started beating her to the answers to complex maths problems

Bangkok Post

Chinese-led team claims physics breakthrough

A Chinese-led research team has generated powerful electron beams with unprecedented efficiency, a scientific breakthrough that could rewrite Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize winning theory, according to a new paper.

The Conversation

Quantum mechanics: how the future might influence the past

In 2022, the physics Nobel prize was awarded for experimental work showing that the quantum world must break some of our fundamental intuitions about how the universe works.

The Conversation

Great Mysteries of Physics 1: is time an illusion?

Without a sense of time, leading us from cradle to grave, our lives would make little sense. But on the most fundamental level, physicists aren’t sure whether the sort of time we experience exists at all.

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Nuclear "war" may not be what we expect

How a nuclear power plant became a tool of war

The Guardian - UK

Back to the father: the scientist who lost his dad – and resolved to travel to 1955 to save him

After losing his beloved father when he was 10, Ronald Mallett read HG Wells and Einstein. They inspired his eminent career as a theoretical physicist – and his lifelong ambition to build a time machine

The Independent UK

Latino Republicans push back on party's immigration agenda

The GOP’s dominance of Florida’s 27th congressional district is emblematic of the party’s inroads with Latino voters in recent years in much of the U.S. Those gains helped Gov. Ron DeSantis decisively win reelection last year and contributed to the GOP taking back control of the U.S. House

Irish Mirror

Boy,10, gets asked in the street about his unique hair caused by rare condition

It means his locks are impossible to brush flat and Sam Barley said he gets stopped in the street by strangers all the time

Daily Mirror

Boy, 10, with uncombable hair due to rare condition 'gawked' at in street by strangers

Sam Barley, from Lincolnshire, has learned to embrace his wacky head of hair which stands on end due to ultra-rare Uncontrollable Hair Syndrome believed to have afflicted Albert Einstein

Wales Online

Boy, aged 10, gets stopped in the street due to his 'weird and wiry' hair caused by rare condition

It is thought Sam Barley has Uncontrollable Hair Syndrome

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