Planck is Europe's first mission to study the relic radiation from the Big Bang This artist's impression shows the focal plane unit of the Planck telescope. Planck's instruments will operate at a few ...

Researchers using notional six-dimensional geometries predicted by string theory to map energy distribution in the infant Universe hope Europe's upcoming Planck background energy mapper will give them ...

IT WAS still dark and bitterly cold when Paul Steinhardt met Anna Ijjas at her office in Harvard on 21 March. They had risen before dawn to watch researchers in Paris announce the first major results ...

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