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To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

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To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

How the physical world influences our conscious experience, and vice versa, are fundamental mysteries. Will we ever work them out, asks Richard Webb

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Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

Physics

Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

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particle accelerator artwork

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The age of giant particle accelerators like the LHC may be over

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Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe's radical new fate

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Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe's radical new fate

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Earth

Earth's helium is running out and it has dire consequences for science

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Special relativity

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Special relativity

Dark energy

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Dark energy

Cosmic inflation

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Cosmic inflation

Marie Curie

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Marie Curie

trinity nuclear test explosion

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The invention of the nuclear bomb

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Quantum mechanics

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String theory

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How did the universe begin?