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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
Kate Shaw

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

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