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Sep 22, 2019

Looking Down a Well in Egypt to Measure the Size of the Earth

How Eratosthenes calculated his…

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Sep 1, 2019

Using a Mountain to Weigh the World

The story of how Schiehallion was chosen for Maskelyne’s famous…

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Nov 13, 2019

Have We Really Found Dark Matter?

How SABRE aims to reveal the source of the DAMA collaboration’s…

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Oct 6, 2019

A Balancing Act in Space

How the James Webb Space Telescope will observe the early universe from its…

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Aug 25, 2019

How CERN’s Location Was Chosen to Unite Europe

Exploring the physics behind the Large Hadron Collider…

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Nov 25, 2019

An Expedition to Measure the Roundness of the Earth

The struggles and triumphs of a mission to Ecuador…

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Sep 8, 2019

Why Is There a “Miniature Sun” Just Outside Oxford?

How the Joint European Torus harnesses fusion…

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Oct 14, 2019

Searching for Ripples in Spacetime with an Experiment that Spans a Continent

How LIGO uses laser…

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Sep 29, 2019

Hunting Neutrinos at the End of the Earth

How the unique properties of the South Pole allow the…

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Sep 15, 2019

Looking Back in Time with the World’s Largest Radio Telescope

Constructing the Square Kilometre Array…

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