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Icon for www.theatlantic.comThe Atlantic · Nov 24, 2010

Did the Universe Just Happen?

Ed Fredkin thinks that the universe is a computer ... Fredkin is hardly alone in considering DNA a form of information, but this observation was less common back when he first made it.
Icon for www.bbc.co.ukBBC · Mar 10, 2025

The chance events that led to human existence

So where did water come from? Some was probably trapped deep in the Earth as the planet formed, saving it from ... The Big Bang, the moment when the Universe came into being, seems like the ...
Icon for www.uml.eduUMass Lowell · Mar 2, 2016

Catalog : PHYS.1210 Exploring the Universe (Formerly 95.121)

How do we know about planets orbiting other stars? How do they form? What are they like? Is there life anywhere besides Earth? How did the Universe begin? How big is it? How old? What is dark matter? Dark energy? How can we tell? SATISFIES: (1) Science ...
Space.com on MSN.com · 13d

Ultralight dark matter may have helped monstrous black holes form in the early universe

Intriguingly, ultralight dark matter might be able to turn into photons (light) — and it's through this process that the research team hopes to eradicate molecular hydrogen and allow gas clouds to collapse into giant black holes.
Icon for www.msn.comMSN · Mar 12, 2025

Water in the universe may have formed closer to the Big Bang than previously thought

When did life as we know it first emerge in the ... To determine when water first formed in the universe, Latif and his colleagues used numerical models to trace the life cycles of two first ...
Icon for www.bbc.co.ukBBC · Jun 9, 2023

Subatomic science: 10 things we know (and don’t know) about the fabric of the universe

As The Infinite Monkey Cage explores what we know about the subatomic particles that form our universe ... At the time Democritus did not have the technology to provide the evidence to this ...
Icon for phys.orgPhys.org · 25d

Astronomy professor offers new theory on universe's star formation

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant ... most of the stars we see today might have formed under different conditions than we ...
Icon for www.ecoportal.netecoportal.net · 8d

First snow in the universe captured in history: Experts can’t find an answer

How did the researchers find this new snow in the universe ... All be it bit by bit, our understanding of the universe and in particular how planets are formed has changed recently. The James Webb telescope launched in 2021 and has, in the years it ...