Astronomers say a recent challenge to one of the most important discoveries in modern cosmology has been resolved, with new research confirming that the universe is still expanding at an accelerating rate.
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Beatie Wolfe (left) and Brian Eno preparing to launch their new album Cecily Eno
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Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe, Verve Records
Quantum 2.0 visits the edges of our knowledge about the quantum world
Physics
An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than we thought
19 November 2025
Illustration of Faraday’s experiment showing how light becomes polarised by a magnetic field
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Physicist Chien-Shung Wu at the Smith College physics lab with an electrostatic generator AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As part of it, they conducted interviews with physicists who had helped found the field three or four decades earlier. Out of more than 100 interviewees, only two were women.
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