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Physics

The Renaissance gambler who invented probability to win at cards

Jerome Cardano's gambling obsession spurred him to invent two of the most important theories in maths, laying the foundations of quantum physics

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Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions

Space

Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions

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Brown dwarfs have strong magnetic fields just like real stars

Space

Brown dwarfs have strong magnetic fields just like real stars

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Cassini takes last look at the ring patterns made by mini moons

Space

Cassini takes last look at the ring patterns made by mini moons

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Tears for Cassini: why it's OK to well up over a lump of metal

Space

Tears for Cassini: why it's OK to well up over a lump of metal

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MD

Space

Cassini's Grand Finale: The ups and downs of our 20-year mission

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What Cassini saw...

Space

Cassini's Grand Finale: The spacecraft that unveiled Saturn

Features

<i>The Farthest</i>: How the Voyager story keeps on giving

Space

The Farthest: How the Voyager story keeps on giving

Culture

Cassini’s 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn

Space

Cassini’s 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn

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Europa

Space

Cassini's legacy: Where next in the search for alien life

Without Cassini and its forebears we would never have guessed life may lurk in the cold outer reaches of the solar system – now we know just where to look

Features

Space

Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini

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Space

Low-oxygen dwarf galaxy shows us how the early universe looked

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Space

Win the chance to speak to an astronaut on the ISS

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Stripy ponds in the Utah desert help green the bone-dry land

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