From First Science, a brief history of infinity: The paradoxical twists and turns of infinity have baffled many great thinkers. From Space.com, an article on the enduring mysteries of the outer Solar System. A look at how the thrashing guitars of heavy metal bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden could help explain the mysteries of the universe. What if the Big Bang wasn't the beginning of the universe, but only one stage in an endlessly repeated cycle of universal expansion and contraction? No dice for slow roll: A finding challenges popular theory of universe's origins. Fifty years ago, a paper appeared in the journal Physical Review with an answer to a physics puzzle: superconductivity. A colleague of the late Sir Fred Hoyle says his friend never got his due for explaining how the universe got its elements.
