When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living on a flat plane. After all, this is why you can navigate a new city using a map: a flat piece of paper that represents ...

The size of the universe depends on its shape, with possibilities ranging from finite and spherical to flat or even infinite.

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

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The universe may be vast, but researchers have multiple points of evidence that reveal its shape.

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) John Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) When you look at your ...