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Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

31 July 2019

We assume our senses see reality as it is - but that could be just an evolved illusion obscuring the true workings of quantum theory and consciousness
Black hole swallows matter

Star hurtling around a giant black hole proves Einstein right - again

25 July 2019

We watched a star orbit the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy for 24 years and its light is stretched just as Einstein predicted it should be

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