We obviously can’t put the universe on a giant set of scales, but scientists have found astonishingly clever ways to […] ...

A new look at radio maps of the sky shows a pronounced tilt, called a dipole, that astronomers are still unable to explain ...

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A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real ...

He was a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

G eorge Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the ...

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

GEORGE FITZGERALD SMOOT III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe ...

George Fitzgerald Smoot III, whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe ...

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...