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10 years since the 'God Particle': What it revealed & why it matters
Higgs boson allows scientists to make better guesses about the universe's structure in the first 10 microseconds after the Big Bang
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In human quest for life beyond Earth, distance acts as a barrier
Caballero has looked at wars and invasions since 1915 to figure out how likely it is that an alien civilisation would be malicious
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Aliens and civilisations beyond Earth: Pentagon report adds to UFO enigma
Report references 144 incidents since 2004 where US service personnel reported close encounters with unidentifiable aerial objects
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Looking beyond for life
The recent announcement of the presence of phosphine - a biosignature - in the upper part of Venus' thick atmosphere has revived the age-old question: Are we alone?
In a big year for science, we learnt a lot more about the universe
Enough for us to hope that 2020 will bring more in the way of advances in our understanding of the universe around us
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And there was light: How the universe came out of a cosmic dark age
Soon after the Big Bang, the universe went completely dark
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Universe is expanding faster than expected
The discovery was made by refining the universe's current expansion rate to unprecedented accuracy, reducing the uncertainty to only 2.4%
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Mysterious infrared light from space detected by ALMA
Researchers went through the vast amount of ALMA data taken during about 900 days in total looking for faint objects
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