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Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration

Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration

2 November 2017

Millions rushed to freely access Stephen Hawking's early musings when they went online. More of the same would help ignite young minds everywhere, says Geraint Lewis
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Aliens slumbering for billions of years are out there – really?

25 July 2017

Trying to explain the Fermi paradox by invoking aliens that sleep for aeons is a speculative idea to be taken with a large pinch of salt, says Geraint Lewis
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Time to embrace our odd place in the cosmos, inside a huge void?

16 June 2017

Evidence is growing that our neck of the universe is a whole lot of nothing. This alluring idea could settle a cosmological bun fight, says Geraint Lewis

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