Some discoveries arrive quietly, without fireworks or clean endings. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from a galaxy far away, the kind that appears when a star wanders too close to something it should not. The data looked strange, not wrong, just unsettled. Signals rose and fell when they normally stay steady. Over time, a…
It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came to Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were not only efficient but also gave accurate digits of the world’s most famous irrational number. And even though for a century, the formulas were viewed as pinnacle of…
New physics reveals detailed calculations showing the universe’s end may come far sooner than expected, with an exact timeline/ Image: Space.com For decades, physicists assumed the universe would fade into darkness over a timescale so vast it barely fits in notation: around 10¹¹⁰⁰ years. But researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands now say the…