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A portrait of Mark Thomson - a middle-aged man in glasses, smiling - with a background collage. The collage contains particle sprays, the LHC, and road signs from the CERN campus

Physics

CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality

Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unknowns – and faces hard choices about what comes next

Features

Aerial view of solar panel. Taiwan

Environment

Solar farm on the ocean outperforms land-based solar in Taiwan

News

Physics

300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector

News

Space

The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology

Comment

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Environment

The Iran war is exposing the huge risks in our food system

Leader

CERN upgrade: Inside the world's largest scientific experiment

Video

CERN upgrade: Inside the world's largest scientific experiment

Video

Environment

Plug-in solar is coming – how dangerous is it and is it worth it?

News

The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe

Space

The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe

Features

Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of a neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binary merger, showing the disruption of the neutron star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University).

Space

A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one

Features

Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?

Space

Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?

This is a New ľ«¶«´«Ă˝Â special package about shock results that have upended cosmology. What do they mean for our models of the universe, and what are the alternative explanations?

Features

Environment

Is geothermal energy on the cusp of a worldwide renaissance?

Analysis

Video

Inside the best dark matter detector ever built

Video

Mind

It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you feel tired all day

Features

Space

Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?

Analysis

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