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From popular astronomy to astrophysics
01.16.2026
A young Madagascan girl looks the Sun through a telescope
One hundred years after the death of the French astronomer and populariser of science Camille Flammarion, the CNRS physicist Jean-Philippe Uzan follows in the footsteps of his predecessor’s...
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Gravitational wave detections spark great expectations
11.03.2025
This illustration shows the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each other.
On 14 September, 2015, the international LIGO/Virgo collaboration detected the very first gravitational wave signal, a tiny distortion of spacetime predicted by Einstein, in this case produced by the...
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1905: Einstein initiates the quantum age
07.09.2025
During his “miraculous year” 120 years ago, Albert Einstein explained the photoelectric effect, laying the foundations of quantum mechanics. The historian of science Christian Bracco provides an...
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