Accidental outcomes tell a tale of mouse tails
Two labs made the same unexpected but valuable discovery. Nick Carne reports.
Changing the dynamics of getting older
In this issue: Manufacturing in space: factories of the future – Brian Cox on activism – A brief history of spacetime – ‘Osteo-biographies‘ of the dead at Stonehenge – Alex the Astronaut meets Alex, an Astronaut
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How many photons in the universe? Go on, have a guess
Calculations reveal enormous number, but with surprisingly dim effect. Andrew Masterson reports.
Mathematicians zero in on the birth of Hypatia
Probability theory deployed to recalculate the birth date of antiquity’s most famous female scholar. Gabriella Bernardi reports.
Science history: The ex-slave who transformed the American South
George Washington Carver became a pioneering agricultural scientist – working, literally, for peanuts. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
Accidental outcomes tell a tale of mouse tails
Two labs made the same unexpected but valuable discovery. Nick Carne reports.
