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| Einstein’s insight throws light wherever we look, writes Jayanta Bhattacharjee |
| In Dan Brown’s bestseller The Da Vinci Code, the French police suspect the hero Robert Langdon of having murdered the curator of the Louvre. The metallic button-shaped disc, about the size of a watch battery, which has been planted by the police in his pocket is a GPS tracking dot. It lo... |
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| He didn’t look like much at first. He was too fat and his head was so big his mother feared it was misshapen or damaged. He didn’t speak unt
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| Einstein was so sure about the accuracy of his theory of general relativity that he went to sleep early on May 29, 1919, the day two teams of British physicists in Principe Island in ... | Read.. |
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On September 27, 1905, editors of the German
journal Annalen der Physik received a paper which showed that
matter and energy are
two faces of the
same coin; this led to the most famous equation
in science ? E=mc2. What?s so special about it? How does it influence our lives? Who has the next big formula?
It?s time for
Big Questions
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If you notice a caravan of cars chugging along behind the yellow school bus on the first day of school, it is probably a line of moms not quite able to let go of their first-time kindergartners. For their five- and six-year-olds, the first day at th ... | 
