Natural history
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Recipe for a Universe: Mathematical laws drive not only the microworld of atoms-and the forces linking them together-but the whole fabric of the cosmos.
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One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos
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The Stuff of Dreams: With a little help from technology, humankind should someday be able to generate biological systems on worlds with no life of their own.
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What does the dreaded "E" word mean, anyway?: A reverie for the opening of the new Hayden Planetarium.
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To know the Universe: A special issue celebrating the opening of the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space.
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Sphere of Influence: The reborn Hayden Planetarium, in the new Rose Center for Earth and Space, mirrors astronomy's radical reinterpretation of outer space.
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Theater of the Stars: Planetariums have come a long way in the past 300 years.
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Night Vision: How a city boy grew up with stars in his eyes.
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Twinkle Twinkle: Also explode explode, collapse collapse, nucleosynthesize nucleosynthesize. It turns out that our nightly companions do more than just sparkle-and therein lies the tale of our own origins.
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Prospecting for Planets: Astronomers are finding new worlds by the dozen-settling one ancient debate and sparking a multitude of others.
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Cannibals of the Cosmos: Galaxies have to fight for survival, just like everything else in the universe. And now they have their own theory of evolution.
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The Big Picture: Mapping galaxies gives the night sky something that simply looking at it won't provide: the third dimension.
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Genesis : The Sequel: In the beginning was the big bang. But what exactly banged? How did it bang? And what happened before it banged? Inflation theory offers some answers.
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The Heart of Matter: Physicists are still asking, What's the universe made of? String theorists think they may know, and their new discipline is zeroing in on a theory of everything.
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Seeing the Whole Symphony: For four millennia, astronomers were color-blind to most of the universe's energy spectrum.
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The Virtual Universe: In cyberspace, astronomers can boldly go where no one has gone before.
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A Forgotten Cosmic Designer: Artist-scientist Howard Russell Butler painted moonscapes and portraits of "Earth's richest man" but his plans for a hall of astronomy were eclipsed.
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