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The LHC for dummies
The world's biggest physics experiment is due to start
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String theory: From Newton to Einstein and beyond
String theory is a theory of everything in which everything's made of strings — but why strings? What do they do? Find out in our equation-free introduction for beginners.
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Defying gravity: The uphill roller
What goes up must come down — or does it? Find out how to cheat gravity with Julian Havil.
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Outer space: A matter of gravity
What is the cosmological constant?
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Lagrange and the Interplanetary Superhighway
In the last issue Lewis Dartnell explained how chaos on the brain is not only unavoidable but also beneficial. Now he tells us why the same is true for our solar system and sends us on a journey that has been travelled by comets and spacecraft.
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Brave young worlds
Extrasolar planets have been grabbing the headlines
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Outer space: Two's company, three's a crowd
Two people who get on well together can often find their relationship destabilised by the arrival of a third into their orbit.
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101 uses of a quadratic equation: Part II
In issue 29 of Plus, we heard how a simple mathematical equation became the subject of a debate in the UK parliament. Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin continue the story of the mighty quadratic equation.
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Fashion gets physical
Solving the mathematics of drapery may help change the way we shop.
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Squeeze me, stretch me
Did you know that every instant, gravity waves from outer space are stretching and squeezing you - and everyone and everything else in the universe? Learning more about this mysterious radiation will help us to probe the structure and origins of the universe, explains Anita Barnes.
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Faster than a falling bullet...
Scientists have for the first time measured the speed of gravity and tested Einstein's assumption - or have they?
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Happy Birthday Stephen Hawking!
This issue of Plus is a special, marking the occasion of Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday. Plus attended his Birthday Conference in Cambridge, where we interviewed some of the world's most influential mathematicians and physicists.