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A decades-old idea is quietly regaining attention in theoretical physics: ancient structures embedded in the universe’s ...

In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.

If the universe was a soundtrack, we have been humming it our whole life. Every atom in our body, every star in the sky, every beam of light is part of a piece of music that never stops playing.

One of the most striking outcomes of the surface-minimization framework is its ability to explain structural features that ...