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What can stars reveal about galaxies and what can cultures reveal about stars?

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Astrophysicists Professor Raja GuhaThakurta and Dr Amanda Quirk , from the University of California Santa Cruz , USA, are studying starlight to explore the mysteries of our two neighbouring galaxies, Andromeda and Triangulum. Professor Raja GuhaThakurta and Dr Amanda Quirk are galactic explorers. SUPERNOVA – the explosion of a star.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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Examining the extremely small

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Scientific research is so complex that it is impossible for a single research group to do everything by themselves,” says Professor Alexander Urban from the Faculty of Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU). How are researchers benefiting from CeNS? This results in creative and innovative ideas.” What is DNA origami?