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Early in his new book, physics historian Graham Farmelo quotes Nima Arkani-Hamed, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, N.J.: “We can eavesdrop on nature not ...

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Explore 10 new works related to particle physics and astrophysics, plus a bonus book on math. Symmetry writer Mike Perricone is back again with a round-up of this year’s popular writing related to ...

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Symmetry writer Mike Perricone takes us through a selection of this year’s new popular physics books. The year 2019 was a banner one for Albert Einstein: It included the first image of a black hole ...

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