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Prime numbers

Physics

Largest prime number ever found has over 23 million digits

Two multiplied by itself nearly eighty million times minus one is the biggest prime number ever discovered by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search

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reading book

Space

The books and ideas that will shape the year ahead

Culture

The pinkest pink, apparently.

Technology

Painter, painter of the wall, what's the fairest colour of all?

Features

Only great work can really justify sci-art collaborations

Humans

Only great work can really justify sci-art collaborations

Culture

Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

Physics

Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

Features

Black hole

Space

Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes

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1845 telescope

Physics

Exploring the universe – and how we found our place in it

Culture

LHC

Physics

2018 preview: Last chance for new physics at the LHC for years

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Michel Chasles

Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

Features

Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world

Physics

Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world

To reconcile quantum mechanics and gravity, a new theory flips the usual script. Space-time and gravity may emerge from quantum effects, not the other way round

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Technology

Will supersonic air travel's return be another white elephant?

Comment

Physics

Mathematician set to publish ABC proof almost no one understands

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Space

Most distant quasar ever seen is way too big for our universe

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Physics

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

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