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Tom Fecht's photo, titled Lucifer's Vortex and part of the touring Storm exhibition from the Prix Pictet award, shows light ...

This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s ...

It was the type of question that Eric C. So had posed to his class for years. As a professor of behavioural economics at the ...

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Physicist Sabrina Pasterski has been dubbed the next Einstein, but can her mind-bending theory of celestial holography solve ...