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Planets similar to Jupiter are likely able to form on orbits shorter than the Earth’s

15 Jul 2016

After analyzing four years of Kepler space telescope observations, astronomers from the University of Toronto, and of the University of Cambridge...

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Priceless treasures: in a shot commissioned to celebrate Cambridge University Library’s 600th anniversary, Professor Stephen Hawking is pictured with Newton’s annotated first edition of Principia Mathematica.  Credit: Graham CopeKoga

Understanding gravity - from Newton to Hawking

29 Apr 2016

The most important publication in the history of science – Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica – and other seminal works by...

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