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6
Jan
2023

Black Holes and Galaxies

More than a century after Einstein formulated General Relativity (GR), black holes are firmly established as one of its most striking and inescapable consequences. This realisation itself arrived only...
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2
Nov
2022

Relativity applications in radiation and plasma...

Albert Einstein developed the theory of relativity using “thought experiments’’ to illustrate the consequences of a constant speed of light. Many measurements have validated Einstein’s...
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10
Jun
2021

Jean-Baptiste Biot, founder of the scientific...

Four years ago, when I began to write From Crust to Core, A chronicle of deep carbon science, the astrophysicist in me looked forward to documenting the story of how Earth’s carbon originated long ago...
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29
Apr
2021

Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe

We only have one universe; could features of it be unusual, or surprising? Questions of fine-tuning ask this about our most fundamental theories. On the face of it, the existence of life, complexity,...
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8
Apr
2021

Martian helicopter, Martian atmosphere, Martian...

Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, examines the link between the flight of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity and the possible existence of past life on the red planet....
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16
Feb
2021

Evaluating An Alternative Cosmology

In the last few years, it has become apparent that there are two theories of cosmology that can claim to successfully explain the observations. The standard theory is called the LCDM (Lambda-cold dark...
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23
Dec
2020

Are We Living in a Multiverse? Why We Might –...

In 2017, the influential online platform Edge.org asked leading academics as its question of the year: “What scientific term or concept should be more widely known?” Martin Rees, former President...
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16
Nov
2020

Huge boost to the search for extraterrestrial life

A decision has just been reached that will give an amazing boost to our capacity to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. On 12th November, member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) signed...
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Kenneth Coles

Kenneth S. Coles, co-author of The Atlas of Mars 2019

Simon Mitton is a Life Fellow at St Edmund\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s College, University of Cambridge. For more than fifty years he has passionately engaged in bringing discoveries in astronomy and cosmology to the general public. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a Fellow of the Geological Society. The International Astronomical Union designated asteroid 4027 as Minor Planet Mitton in recognition of his extensive outreach activity and that of Dr Jacqueline Mitton.