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‘On this view, a dust grain is actually a little galaxy of collapse points, winking instantaneously in and out of existence’
From Saturn’s rings, Earth is seen as a distant shining light (centre) in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Photo courtesy NASA/JPL
Wassily Kandinsky Composition VIII. July 1923. Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2012
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Demonstration being carried out of the E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) cold fusion system, designed by Italian inventor Andrea Rossi. Photo by Massimo Brega/SPL
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Illustration by Clayton Junior
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The teleologians: Plato (left) and Aristotle in Raphael’s The School of Athens. Photo by Ted Spiegel/Corbis
Parallax (Candles) (1951). Courtesy the Estate of Berenice Abbott/Getty Images
String Theory suggests that our universe may be like a page in a book, stacked alongside tens of trillions of others. Those other realities would be right next to us now. Photo by the Esch Collection/Getty
Tyrannosaurus rex, a feathered beast. Illustration by Richard Wilkinson
A red deer stag in autumn mist. Photo by Arterra/Sven-Erik Arndt/Getty
Coloured scanning electron micrograph of a macrophage white blood cell (purple) engulfing a tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) bacterium (pink). Photo by Science Photo Library
An artist’s representation of superstrings. Illustration by Mehau Kuylyk/Science Photo Library
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Out of time; ‘Rocket’ Ronnie O’Sullivan at the practice table during the German Masters snooker tournament at the Tempodrom in Berlin. Photo by Stefan Boness/Ipon/Panos