Might our universe – as vast as it is – be simply one of many? We look at the growing evidence that there’s more than one cosmos out there

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Isaac Newton, who must be one of the cleverest individuals ever to have lived, made groundbreaking contributions to physics, mathematics, mechanics, philosophy and astronomy. The laws of motion, the t

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Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory