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The right spin: how to fly a broken space craft

On the 25th of May 1997 a dramatic collision tore a hole into the space station Mir and sent it hurtling through space. As NASA astronaut Michael Foale tells Plus, the fate of Mir and its crew hinged on a classical set of equations.

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Chaos is not a desk toy

Physicists create a quantum Newton's cradle - and witness an absence of chaos for the first time.
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Abel to iPod

The 2006 Abel prize celebrates the mathematician who helped make mp3s possible.