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John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

Scientists get new measurement of how fast the universe is expanding – and it reveals a huge mystery - Strange measurements ...

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The universe is stretching apart faster than our current theories of physics can explain, and a new study has just confirmed that the discrepancy is not a fluke.

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