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The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century (so far), picked by the world’s top thinkers – BBC Science Focus Magazine
The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century (so far), picked by the world’s top thinkers We asked the world’s foremost minds to highlight some of the game-changing scientific breakthroughs shaping our world since the year 2000 As the 21st century gathers pace, it’s clear we’re living through a golden age of scientific discovery.…
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How Pythagoras turned math into a tool for understanding reality
The ‘music of the spheres’ was born from the effort to use numbers to explain the universe By Tom Siegfried, Contributing Correspondent, May 9, 2023 at 7:00 am If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your first thought probably wasn’t about mathematics. But in its historical origin, the music of the…
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NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet | NASA
By NASA, July 12, 2022 President Joe Biden unveiled this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, during a White House event Monday, July 11. Webb’s image covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground –…
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EarthSky | What is time, and why does it move forward?
Posted by EarthSky Voices September 19, 2021 andBy Thomas Kitching, UCL A bell-shaped funnel with grid lines on it and ‘Big Bang’ written at the narrow end. Imagine time running backwards. People would grow younger instead of older and, after a long life of gradual rejuvenation – unlearning everything they know – they would end…
