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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Lawrence Jackson/AP/Shutterstock (6360330b) Stephen Hawking Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge, makes remarks at an event marking the 50th anniversary of NASA,at George Washington University in Washington Hawking NASA, Washington, USA

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Stephen Hawking’s parting shot is a fresh challenge to cosmologists

The physicist’s final theorem, about why the universe seems fine-tuned for life, contains some provocative predictions. Will they be as fruitful as his insights into black holes?

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Stephen Hawking with Thomas Hertog, in Hawking's office

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Stephen Hawking's final theorem turns time and causality inside out

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Stephen Hawking memoir: 'An iron man in a frail man's facade'

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Stephen Hawking memoir: 'An iron man in a frail man's facade'

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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

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Stephen Hawking’s legacy will be honoured with a new 50p coin

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Stephen Hawking’s legacy will be honoured with a new 50p coin

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The legacy of Stephen Hawking

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The legacy of Stephen Hawking

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Hawking radiation

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Sneak peek at Hawking's last book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

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Hawking

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions review: Seeking the real Hawking

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Lucy and Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking, my father: "Harry Potter has magic, we have science"

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Hawking's headstone

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Stars gravitate to Stephen Hawking’s memorial service

There was only one Stephen Hawking but there were a thousand ways to celebrate a genius and science’s only global celebrity at London’s Westminster Abbey

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Stephen Hawking was a brilliant ambassador for science

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Humans

Hawking's global warnings divided opinion but the world listened

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Stephen Hawking: Tributes pour in as physicist dies aged 76

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Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes

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