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The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology

Cyclic cosmology, or the big bounce, is the idea that the universe will eventually crunch back together and then go through another big bang. Columnist Leah Crane finds that, appropriately, it’s coming back

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Katy Clough on numerical relativity

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New simulations reveal what happened at the beginning of the universe

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We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected

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We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected

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The first quantum fluctuations set into motion a huge cosmic mystery

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Why it's taking a century to pin down the speed of the universe

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Best ever map of early universe is double-edged sword for cosmologists

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The first water may have formed surprisingly soon after the big bang

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How cosmic stasis may drastically rewrite the history of the universe

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How cosmic stasis may drastically rewrite the history of the universe

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The astrophysicist who may be about to discover how the universe began

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The astrophysicist who may be about to discover how the universe began

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Why string theory has been unfairly maligned - and how to test it

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Why string theory has been unfairly maligned - and how to test it

String theory is widely considered beyond empirical investigation. But we could conceivably test it thanks to ancient particles called moduli, which might appear in astronomical observations, says theorist Joseph Conlon

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A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins

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The quantum experiment that could help find evidence of the multiverse

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JWST should soon glimpse the very first stars born after the big bang

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Dark stars: Have we finally found a weird sun powered by dark matter?

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