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Untangling the cosmic web

There is a pattern found in nature. It is indeed the largest pattern there is. It is so vast that it spans the universe, ...
Researchers saw an unusual pattern when they looked at a "skymap" of the relative intensity of cosmic rays directed toward the Earth's Southern Hemisphere, with an excess of cosmic rays detected in ...
Though still under construction, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is already delivering scientific results — including an early finding about a phenomenon the telescope was not even ...
The discovery of a pattern of X-ray "stripes" in the remains of an exploded star may provide the first direct evidence that a cosmic event can accelerate particles to energies a hundred times higher ...
Click here to submit a picture for publication in these online galleries and/or on the Guardian letters page ‘I am fascinated by the patterns created when water freezes, even in puddles by the side of ...