A Cold War of Quarks Sparks Gravitational Echoes

Framing the mystery: gravitational waves as fossils of the early cosmos In the quiet, the universe sometimes hums with echoes from its most dramatic events. Gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime, travel unimpeded through the cosmic fog, carrying messages from epochs we cannot reproduce in a lab. The Oxford group led by Prateek Agrawal and his…

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Are Wormhole Throats Really Stable in Our Universe?

Wormholes have always hovered between science and myth—the imagined tunnels through spacetime that could, in principle, connect distant regions of the cosmos. A new study from the University of Texas at Dallas, led by Travis Rippentrop, Avijit Bera, and Mustapha Ishak, digs into a pressing question behind that science-fiction gloss: can these thin-walled bridges stay…

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A Short Video’s Long Shadow on Global Networks

The digital planet is wired with tiny accelerators of attention: 15-second clips that leap from feed to feed, across platforms and languages. A video’s journey isn’t just about one platform; it’s a web of echoes across Douyin, Kuaishou, Xigua, Toutiao, and Bilibili. A new study asks not just how many views a video racks up…

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The Hubble Puzzle Stalls as Late-Time Tweaks Fall Short

The universe keeps its secrets close, even when scientists tease with clever tricks. The long-running Hubble tension—the stubborn gap between the expansion rate of the early universe and what we measure in the nearby cosmos—has become the kind of puzzle that hums in the background of cosmology seminars and data releases. Planck’s CMB measurements point…

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SoV Finds Fresh Orthogonality Before Wrapping in SYM

Theoretical physics often feels like trying to read the genome of reality in a language that shifts shape when you blink. Planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills (SYM) is one of those languages: exquisitely symmetric, shockingly intricate, and textually full of hidden patterns. In this landscape, a method called Separation of Variables (SoV) promises to…

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