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Mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose

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Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose is one of the world's most prominent theoretical physicists who in 1965 produced the mathematics that showed how stars collapse to form black holes.
Portrait of Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei

Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton

Cosmic microwave background

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Cosmic microwave background

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How to make the perfect crêpe according to fluid dynamics

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General relativity

Star Trek

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How Star Trek’s warp drives touch on one of physics' biggest mysteries

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What is quantum field theory?

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What is quantum field theory?

Black holes

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Black holes

The multiverse - are there multiple universes?

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Are there multiple universes?

What – one vast, ancient and mysterious universe isn’t enough for you? Well, as it happens, there are others.

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Dark matter

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Bizarre pentaquark turns out to be a new kind of subatomic 'molecule'

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Space

We've seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own

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Chien-Shiung Wu

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