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Among other great speakers at this year’s festival, hear cosmologist Jo Dunkley talk about the state-of-the-art telescopes in Chile that are allowing us to study light coming from the earliest moments of the universe.
This research is helping solve some of the mysteries of dark matter. Join us in person at New Scientist Live on 13 October at London’s ExCeL Centre.
Tour
Join journalist Manjit Kumar on a journey to the birthplace of quantum physics. Explore the sites where Niels Bohr formed his ideas about atomic structure and quantum theory, and find out how he became part of the Manhattan Project, which made the atomic bomb. Then enjoy a day trip to the ancient city of Roskilde –now a centre for sustainable energy research. This six-day tour starts on 3July and costs £2698.
Podcast
This week, the team discuss the truth about the sun’s magnetic field and get the lowdown on a mysterious element called promethium, which we have been struggling to study for nearly 80 years. Plus: hear why one of our reporters has been role-playing as an ancient Greek warrior and why the Atlantic hurricane season is projected to be so bad this year.
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As a botanist, one of James Wong’s firmest beliefs is that plants improve our quality of life.
