One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology is the rate at which the universe is expanding. This can be predicted using the standard model of cosmology, also known as Lambda-cold dark matter (ΛCDM).
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just proposed rescinding a critically important finding under the Clean Air Act that, according to The Baltimore Sun, “determined that carbon dioxide and ...
The one-dimensional marginalized distribution on individual parameters and two-dimensional contours by using SNe + BAO + CMB data points. Credit: The European ...
Black and Latino men had often been charged under New York’s unusual ban on the knives, which are opened with a flick of the wrist. By Jesse McKinley Over the past 60 years, tens of thousands of black ...
No matter how you slice it, New York’s much-criticized law on gravity knives is unconstitutionally vague, a judge ruled Thursday. The decision by Manhattan Federal Court Judge Paul Crotty could have ...
A spallation neutron source has been used by physicists in Japan to search for possible violations of the inverse square law of gravity. By scattering neutrons off noble-gas nuclei, the researchers ...
The application of New York State's law banning so-called gravity knives by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. was found unconstitutionally vague by a federal judge in Manhattan ...
Scientists have been searching for "dark matter"—an unknown and invisible substance thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe—for nearly a century. The reason for this persistence ...
Gravity is the weakest of the fundamental forces, but it’s the only force that operates over very long distances. Hence, planets orbit stars, stars form galaxies, and galaxies cluster. Gravity also ...