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Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom
The tech revolution that manipulates the subatomic world
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A cough. A splutter. A jet of flame for good measure and the Merlin is prised from its slumbers and into rambunctious life. Many of you, perhaps even most, will have heard one of these engines, at Goo
Glasgow, 1942. The Carl Rosa Opera Company was in town to perform Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Tickets had been snapped up by local people – including many who didn’t really know what an opera was. The
Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept