Iran has been battling its worst drought in more than six decades. A blaze in the north has now eaten through parts of the old treasure.

Iran has sought help to fight a devastating fire in UNESCO-listed forests in its north, with neighbouring Turkey sending firefighting planes, Iran's top environmental official said on Saturday.

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The Big Bang started the universe 13.8B years ago - but how might it end? Here's what modern astrophysics says about its ultimate fate.

At least 62 Palestinians killed across enclave in Israeli attacks, as two more malnutrition deaths are recorded.

The event resulted in a new black hole with a mass 225 times larger than our Sun.

Tehran, home to 10 million people, suffers from severe traffic congestion making a speedy evacuation impossible.

The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), WPI at the University of Tokyo solicits applications for its special Postdoctoral Fellowship program.

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Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper

Astrophysicist Niayesh Afshordi explores the latest debates on the origin of our universe.

After going quiet on bird flu, CDC scientists have published a report on its spread among veterinarians. The findings suggest a need for better surveillance.

Persian speaking community in Waterloo region don't miss out on this opportunity to hear about the fantastic tales of our cosmic origin and the…

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The Entangler recently had the opportunity to talk with Niayesh Afshordi, author of the upcoming book Battle of the Big Bang, a compelling exploration of competing cosmological origin stories.

We investigate the general properties of expanding cosmological models which generate scale-invariant curvature perturbations in the presence of a variable speed of sound. We show that in an expanding...

We explore the possibility that quadratic gravity, as a renormalizable theory, describes the interior of quantum black holes. We find new exact power-law solutions to pure quadratic gravity under sphe...

The research focus of the TPPC Group is on tests of new models of particle physics beyond the Standard Model, including supersymmetry, large extra dimensions and strings.