From the archives: How a cosmic illusion proved Einstein’s relativity
15 May 2019
40 years ago, a radical new design of telescope showed that two cosmic objects were one – confirming a prediction of Einstein’s theories made decades earlier
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Physicist Kate Shaw on Higgs bosons and how reality is an illusion
15 May 2019
Kate Shaw uncovers cosmic secrets at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. She reveals what particles tell us about the world – and how Stephen Hawking inspired her
Why films like Avengers: Endgame can get away with time travel tricks
15 May 2019
In his monthly film column, Simon Ings finds that invoking the quantum world is a great way out for Avengers-style franchises when they want to mess with time
Artificial sponges could pull uranium from seawater for nuclear power
11 May 2019
Seawater is full of far more uranium than we can mine from the ground, and specialised sponges could let us harvest it to use in nuclear power plants
