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Girls Choose Science
The Woman behind Dark Matter
In memory of Vera Rubin, the astrophysicist who shed new light on the motion of galaxies and provided evidence for the existence of dark matter
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Girls Choose Science
Like Parents, Like Daughter
The 119th birthday of Irène Joliot-Curie, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering induced radioactivity
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Girls Choose Science
The Woman Who Found a Peculiar Star
50th anniversary of the discovery of the pulsar, for which the Nobel Prize was not awarded to the scientist who found it, but only to her supervisor
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Science news
First-Documented Neutron Star Collision
The discovery of gravitational waves has enabled the real-time detection of a high-energy collision and the study of its repercussions
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Ask the expert
Is the sky darkest just before dawn?
Is darkness especially deep just before dawn? not really...
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Ask the expert
Why are Stars Spherical?
Most stars are spherical, but some are “squashed”, or even look like a peanut or a funnel. How does this happen?
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Science History
The New Zealander who Cracked the Atom
145th birthday of Ernest Rutherford, the discoverer of the atomic structure who opened the era of nuclear research
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Science Panorama
Unsolved Mysteries of Physics
What is dark matter? Why is the universe expanding? How does quantum mechanics go with relativity?
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