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Starting in Asia and extending to the limits of human understanding, The Known Universe is a journey through the cosmos created by the American Museum of Natural History as part of the 2009-2010 Rubin Museum exhibition Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe. Created using the Hayden Planetarium’s Digital Universe Atlas, the world’s most complete map of the observable Universe, the visualisation serves as both an astounding tour of our cosmos and a tribute to centuries of scientific observation and accomplishment.
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Neuroscience
The brain repurposed our sense of physical distance to understand social closeness
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Physics
Spectacular fractal patterns emerge when electricity meets a wooden surface
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Mathematics
How a verbal paradox shattered the notion of total certainty in mathematics
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Metaphysics
To see the Universe more clearly, think in terms of processes, not objects
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Computing and artificial intelligence
How machine learning can help historians decode ancient inscriptions
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Childhood and adolescence
When Paradise, California burned, its teens became instant climate refugees
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Physics
This is not an animation: the spectacular sight of magnets meeting a metallic liquid
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Architecture
How the Dorze in Ethiopia make ‘beehive’ houses from bamboo that last a lifetime
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Computing and artificial intelligence
From ‘chandeliers’ to entangled qubits, here’s what happens inside a quantum computer
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