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Ehrenfest's efforts were perhaps best recognized by the informal title his colleagues conferred upon him: the conscience of physics. (Wikimedia Commons/The MIT Press Reader)

The forgotten physicist

Eric Johnson - MIT Press Reader
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Metaphysics hides in quantum mechanics

George Greenstein
Illustration of a newly discovered black hole named MAXI J1820+070. (Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

What a black hole looks like

Nicole Karlis

Lessons from "Spider-Man"

Aaron W. Harrison - The Conversation
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Reflections from a Nobel winner

Donna Strickland - The Conversation
Arecibo Radio Telescope (Getty/TexPhoto)

Weird radio signal flummoxes astronomers

Nicole Karlis
The magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid) (AP/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

How everyone can learn quantum mechanics

Scott Bembenek, PhD
This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar asteroid: 'Oumuamua. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Debate rages over 'Oumuamua's origins

Nicole Karlis
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This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (AP/NASA)

NASA probe to "kiss the sun"

Keith A. Spencer
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How lasers became synonymous with cool

Jason Rhode
(Lucasfilm)

The "Star Wars" blaster is real

Martin Archer - The Conversation
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The Polaroid turns 70

Ann Elsner - The Conversation
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Scientists harness quantum spookiness

Robert Young - The Conversation
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel Studios)

The science of superheroes in flight

Mark Brake
Sensors on the Large Underground Xenon dark matter detector can register the emission of just a single photon from a dark matter interaction within the detector's giant xenon tank. So far, however, no signs of dark matter have been seen. (Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

We may be close to detecting dark matter

Keith A. Spencer
(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

He treated us like family

Marika Taylor - The Conversation
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What we know because of Stephen Hawking

Christoph Adami - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

How Stephen Hawking inspired millions

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Ronald Martinez)

The math behind the perfect free throw

Larry M. Silverberg - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-575581p1.html'>wang song</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The abstract of mathematics is important

Harry Zandberg Wiggins - The Conversation
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Honey, who shrunk the proton?

Keith A. Spencer
(Getty/Giuseppe Cacace)

Arguing over the Moon

Keith A. Spencer
Sensors on the Large Underground Xenon dark matter detector can register the emission of just a single photon from a dark matter interaction within the detector's giant xenon tank. So far, however, no signs of dark matter have been seen. (Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

Dark matter: the mystery substance

Dan Hooper - The Conversation
Albert Einstein (AP/)

Why nobody believed Einstein

Scott Bembenek, PhD
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