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How dark energy findings may inspire a new generation of physics nerds

The discovery of the cosmic acceleration problem truly inspired me as a teenage physics nerd. Recent, related revelations about dark energy will hopefully capture the interest of today’s young science geeks, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Why physicists keep trying to get rid of space-time entirely

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John Harrison marine timekeeper at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

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The clocks that helped define time from London's Royal Observatory

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Most accurate space clock to launch – and count down to destruction

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Space could emerge from time

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Elizabeth Ruth Belville receives a timekeeping certificate from an official at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, circa 1903. Once Belville has the accuracy of her watch, which she calls 'Arnold', confirmed in this way, her task is to 'take the time' round businesses in the West End and City of London. Belville's work was the means of ensuring standard time in the city before the advent of radio.

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Ruth Belville: How the Greenwich Time Lady kept London ticking

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The epic quest to redefine the second using the world's best clocks

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The epic quest to redefine the second using the world's best clocks

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How nothing could destroy the universe

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Memory illusion makes you think events occurred earlier than they did

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The cosmic landscape of time that explains our universe's expansion

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The cosmic landscape of time that explains our universe's expansion

A strange new conception of how time warps across the universe does away with cosmology's most mysterious entity, dark energy

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Why exactly is the quantum world so weird?

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Sci-fi thriller Dissolution smartly interweaves time travel and memory

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Time can move both forwards and backwards at the quantum scale

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The 100-year-old symmetry theorem that is still changing physics today

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