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  • System can 3-D print an entire building

    Tech could enable faster, cheaper, more adaptable building construction

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  • Charon at 40: Four Decades of Discovery on Pluto’s Largest Moon

    The largest of Pluto’s five moons, Charon, was discovered 40 years ago today by James Christy and Robert Harrington at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona – only about six miles from where Pluto itself was discovered at Lowell Observatory. They weren’t even looking for satellites of Pluto – Christy was trying to refine Pluto’s orbit around the Sun.

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  • Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe – with David Tong

    According to our best theories of physics, the fundamental building blocks of matter are not particles, but continuous fluid-like substances known as ‘quantum fields’. David Tong explains what we know about these fields, and how they fit into our understanding of the Universe.

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  • New Evidence Shows We Might Have Gotten Cosmic Evolution Entirely Wrong

    The discovery of ZF-COSMOS-20115 is challenging our long-established assumptions about how galaxies form. The “red and dead” galaxy demonstrates just how little we still understand of how the universe began.

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