As you may recall, way back in the mists of time I penned an article that attempted to describe a plethora of different computing options, ranging from a “huge hairy CPU chip” at one end to a “great ...

What makes the dark universe brighter—at least in certain places—is the light of the stars. But they were not present from the beginning. Once, there must have been a time when not a single star shone ...

This diagram depicts the major milestones in the evolution of the Universe since the Big Bang, about 13.8 billion years ago. It is not to scale. The Universe was in a neutral state at 400 thousand ...