To read the second of three question-and-answer interviews with the author of this Predictive Cosmology theory, please go to the January 9, 2010 iTWire article " Q&A Interview, Part 2: Predictive ...

Matrix models have emerged as a powerful framework in theoretical physics, offering a nonperturbative approach to describing quantum space-time. In these models, fundamental degrees of freedom are ...

Mr. Sundman earned a Masters of Science degree through the Department of Engineering Physics at Helsinki University of Technology. There, Stig became interested in elementary particle physics, with ...

What are the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that seem to account for so much of our universe? Why is the universe expanding? For the past 30 years, most cosmologists have looked to the ...

A new study probing the structure and evolution of galaxy clusters shows good agreement with the predictions of standard cosmological models. Cosmologists have found new evidence for the standard ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 34 (Aug. 25, 2009), pp. 14213-14218 (6 pages) We derive a system of three coupled equations that ...

Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is perhaps understandable that we haven’t yet cracked all its secrets. But there are actually some pretty basic features, ones we used to think we ...

In heavenly fields like astrophysics and cosmology, scientists here on the ground necessarily have a limited set of tools at their disposal. Various kinds of telescopes allow for the study of objects ...

Some nearby dwarf galaxies are causing headaches for astrophysicists who say they don't fit the currently accepted standard model of cosmology. Specifically, they don't match the accepted model of how ...