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Dying to know - Would you lay your life on the line for a theory? Marcus Chown meets a man who's thinking about it

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Shaking all over - Even a puny little galaxy can generate enough energy to fuel a quasar

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A happy medium - One false move and our Universe would have been unfit for life

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In the dark

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Review : A different drum

Books & Arts

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Heavenly halo - Our Galaxy is shrouded in gamma rays—but no one knows what it means yet

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The driving force

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A highly irregular matter - Images of a distant cloud hint that the big bang was more "lumpy" than anyone thought

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Rebel with a cause? – A powerful mini-quasar is perplexing astronomers

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Small, dark and macho

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Review : A total eclipse of the heart

Books & Arts

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Invisible worlds

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