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Emilie du Chatelet

Physics

The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton's physics

Emilie du Châtelet was a talented mathematician and experimental physicist who took on France's intellectual establishment. But history hasn't done her justice

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Bloated baby black holes spotted in the distant universe

Space

Bloated baby black holes spotted in the distant universe

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free will

Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

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Red flash at the centre of dusty ring

Space

Cannibal stars explode violently – as predicted by Darwin's son

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No Shadow

Physics

Matter, energy… knowledge: How to harness physics' demonic power

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Man having black bushy beard shaved

Physics

The impossible barber and other bizarre thought experiments

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Kepler doubles exoplanet population with 1284 new planets

Space

Kepler doubles exoplanet population with 1284 new planets

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Planck measurements of dust in glowing technicolor

Space

Goopy dark matter could slow down expansion of the universe

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The Jicamarca Radio Observatory in Peru, where radar echoes in the upper atmosphere were first detected

Space

Invisible radar wall in the atmosphere caused by UV from the sun

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Graph showing the gravitational wave signal from LIGO

Space

Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

When space-time ripples, what does it ripple into? Find the answers to this and more not-so-dumb questions in our ultimate gravitational-wave primer

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Space

Stars burn away the atmospheres of close-in super-Earths

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Space

How we found them: Inside a giant gravitational wave detector

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Space

Was gravitational wave signal from a gravastar, not black holes?

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Space

Unexplained plume over Mars could be caused by solar outburst

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