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“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics professor at ...

Stars aren't supposed to simply disappear, yet countless bright objects that once appeared in the sky in the 1950s no longer do. To try to solve the mystery, scientists have turned to a growing field ...

Piers Forster receives funding from UK Research Councils and the EU Horizon 2020 programme. He is Trustee of the United Bank of Carbon Forest Charity. After the second world war, many of Japan’s ...