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The tradition of decorating evergreen trees at Christmastime first emerged in Europe in the Middle Ages. From there, it was taken to America by German immigrants, while across in England, the practice ...

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Marika Taylor currently receives funding from EPSRC, STFC, UK government deparments and the European Horizon programme. In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the ...

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A new theoretical study suggests that the mysterious force driving the accelerated expansion of the universe—known as dark energy—may actually be rooted in a deeply quantum structure of space-time.