Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London, where he worked on projects involving Alzheimer’s disease and Fragile X syndrome.

The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, ...

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The Big Bang: The moment when the universe — everything in existence — began. ... Right? Turns out, it's not quite that simple. Today, when scientists talk about the Big Bang, they mean a period of ...

A researcher has revived an almost 100-year-old theory to refute that the Big Bang ever happened, challenging one of the most established theories in modern science. As detailed in a paper published ...

Our humble blue planet came into being with the Big Bang — the sudden expansion of the universe outwards. Now, according to astrophysicists and cosmologists, Earth and all of its celestial siblings ...

Scientists have long been interested in the early history of the universe. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped popularize that the Big Bang was a singular point in time — but that's not how many ...

Scientists may have "heard" the first tantalizing evidence of primordial black holes formed directly from overly dense ...

The Big Bang theory is supported by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The universe rapidly expanded and cooled after the Big Bang. Light elements like helium and lithium ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

About 13.8 billion years ago, the entire cosmos consisted of a tiny, hot, dense ball of energy that suddenly exploded. That’s how everything began, according to the standard scientific story of the ...