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“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen”
A shower of comets rains down on Earth while violent volcanic eruptions billow up from below. Both events may follow our planet’s passage through dark matter concentrated in the Milky Way’s plane and...
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“Werner Heisenberg once proclaimed that all the quandaries of quantum...
One number to rule them all? Does the Universe around us have a fundamental structure that can be glimpsed through special numbers?The brilliant physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988) famously thought...
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“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what...
Our environment… This map shows a slice of our Universe. It was created from astronomical data taken night after night over a period of 15 years using a telescope in New Mexico, USA. We are located at...
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“It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling...
This artist’s impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the background. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser For centuries, scientific discoveries have suggested...
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“Mathematics has not a foot to stand on which is not purely metaphysical”*…
Battle of Maida 1806, part of the the invasion and occupation of Naples by Napoleon’s French Empire (source) Lest we forget… A forgotten episode in French-occupied Naples in the years around 1800—just...
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