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Science : Superconductor survives mag attack
News
The alien spotters
Features
Science : Dynamic duo spin close to the edge
News
Review : Reflections on relativity
Books & Arts
Forum : Just who did discover the electron?
Going with the flow – It was a bright summer’s day in 1988 when a man cycling beside a river was struck by a Big Idea. Marcus Chown reports
Features
Review : When two tribes go to war
Books & Arts
Science : Runaway stars begin with a blast from the past
News
Science : Dying stars squeeze energy out of nothing
News
Einstein’s insights come into focus
News
An eye bigger than the Earth – Held together by a cat’s cradle of wire, an orbiting radio telescope is set to offer astronomers an unprecedented view of the most distant objects in the Universe, writes Marcus Chown
Features
Review : What a wonderful cosmos
Books & Arts