For two decades, astronomers have chased a cosmic ghost: ultra‑massive “monster stars” that theory said must have existed but ...

Somebody’s going to win a Nobel Prize. At least that’s what the physics community is saying after the announcement on Monday that a Harvard team has found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation ...

Even after decades of searching, scientists have never seen a particle of dark matter. Evidence for the substance’s existence is close to incontrovertible, but no one yet knows what it is made of. For ...

https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.03.229 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.03.229 Copy URL Abstract We give a natural and ...