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What are wormholes? An astrophysicist explains these shortcuts through space-time

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

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The search for dark matter

In a gold mine at the edge of a rugged mountain range, scientists are searching for something no-one has ever seen.

ABC News

Bizarre black holes and dark matter conspired to make the universe as we see it

Primordial black holes could have pulled matter toward it to trigger stellar formation, but matter consumed by a black hole also heats nearby gas, causing it to push away.

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Laboratory to study dark matter opens 1km under Australian town – with no bananas allowed

From deep inside a gold mine in Stawell, Victoria, researchers are hunting for the invisible substance thought to make up 85% of the matter in the universe

The Guardian - AU

Look! New image shows an elusive black hole behavior for the first time

A reprocessing of Event Horizon Telescope data yields a ring of photons around the black hole at M87.

Inverse

Physicists discover a mind-bending puzzle about protons at the quantum level

Quarks can sneak in and give protons a little extra heft now and then.

Inverse

5 years ago, scientists observed a new kind of cosmic explosion

Two neutron stars slammed into each other and created a never-before-seen event.

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Astronomers discovered the earliest known dark matter — and it's not behaving as predicted

For the first time, scientists used the radiation residue of the Big Bang to measure dark matter around extremely distant galaxies.

Inverse

Scientists at CERN have discovered too many particles for physics to keep up

A naming scheme is an important part of the language used to communicate between people working in particle physics

Inverse

Astronomers pinpoint the source of a mysterious cosmic particle

Physicists identify a supernova remnant as a prime suspect.

Inverse

Western Gateway bid for nuclear fusion plant on Wales-England border lands further backing

The Severn Edge bid is one of five under consideration by the government as it looks to prove the commercial viability of fusion energy

Birmingham Post

Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world – new research

The Earth is approximately 1.1℃ warmer than it was at the start of the industrial revolution. That warming has not been uniform, with some regions warming at a far greater pace. One such region is the Arctic.

The Conversation

Public told ‘half truths’ over nuclear fusion plan, say anti-nuclear campaign groups

ANTI-NUCLEAR campaigners have accused organisations supporting plans for a nuclear fusion plant in North Ayrshire of having promoted the project…

The National (Scotland)

A powerful new dark matter facility could finally unlock physics’ most elusive mystery

The project, known as Lux-Zeplin, or LZ, has a history that would give any project manager nightmares.

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A wild twist on a modern technology could unleash nuclear fusion

Overall, the experiment represents steps forward in understanding fundamental physics and applies to much more macroscale phenomena.

The Guardian - UK

Elusive by Frank Close review – the brilliance of physicist Peter Higgs

An illuminating guide to the man and the science behind the Higgs boson – and how its discovery ‘ruined’ his life

Inverse

Large Hadron Collider: What the Higgs boson revealed to physicists.

The elusive particle may show physicists a world beyond the Standard Model.

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Large Hadron Collider physicists find new particles in old data

These new kinds of quarks have an apt name: strange particles.

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Cern physicists find evidence of three new ‘exotic’ particles as Large Hadron Collider comes back online

‘The more analyses we perform, the more kinds of exotic hadrons we find’

Mic

People think CERN's Large Hadron Collider will open up portals to hell

The Large Hadron Collider is back online, and conspiracy theorists are worried it will invite all sorts of interdimensional evils into our world.

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The Large Hadron Collider will embark on a third run to uncover more cosmic secrets

Ten years ago, the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle helped make sense of our universe. But in doing so, it unlocked a whole host of new questions.

The Independent UK

Ten years after the Higgs boson was discovered, a lot is still unknown

But progress made since 2012 to determine its properties have allowed physicists to make big steps forward in our understanding of the universe.

The Conversation

Higgs boson: ten years after its discovery, why this particle could unlock new physics beyond the standard model

Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks of nature) have mass. For particle physicists, this was the end of a decades-long and hugely difficult journey – and arguably the most important result in the history of…

The Conversation

Can we time travel? A theoretical physicist provides some answers

Time travel makes regular appearances in popular culture, with innumerable time travel storylines in movies, television and literature. But it is a surprisingly old idea: one can argue that the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles over 2,500 years ago, is the first time travel story.

Evening Standard

Scientists say acoustic-gravity waves behind huge tsunami in Tonga

Scientists say they have unearthed what caused the Tonga tsunami, which was prompted by a massive underwater volcanic eruption, earlier this year.

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