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The central place of GPS in our lives
The impact of GPS on our lives is celebrated with the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
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Seeing double
Nadia Bahjat-Abbas is a mature student working on one of the hardest problems of modern physics. Find out more in this video.
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Plus Advent Calendar Door #4: What is a black hole - physically?
We asked cosmologist Pau Figueras everything we’ve ever wanted to know about black holes. In this podcast he explains what black holes are, physically, and how we hope to observe them.
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Emmy Noether and the power of symmetry
2018 is the centenary of a mathematical result that changed the character of physics.
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The unreasonable relationship between mathematics and physics
Can physics do for maths what maths has done for physics?
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Stephen Hawking: Milestones of a life in physics
A quick tour to some of Hawking's most significant achievements.
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Cosmic models
Cosmology has an ambitious goal: to understand the Universe in its entirety. Find out more here.
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Who's watching: The cosmic microwave background
Find out all you need to know about the cosmic microwave background in this comprehensive overview.
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The best of both worlds
Straddling the boundary between pure and applied mathematics.
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The shape and fate of the Universe
How will the Universe end? In a big crunch? Or a big freeze? It all depends on its shape...
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Listening for ripples in spacetime
Find out about the heroic effort that led to the detection of gravitational waves and the excitement of their discovery.
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Maths in a minute: Gravitational waves
A quick introduction to one of the greatest discoveries of the century.