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Astronomers transfixed the public in April 2019 when they released the first-ever image of a black hole, produced by radio wave data from a collaboration of telescopes around the world known collectively as the Event Horizon Telescope.
“There is a deadly earnestness with which children take up whatever rules have been established for a particular context.”
The century-long history of efforts to mobilize the social sciences for national security offers cautionary tales and important lessons for the future of national security research.
Science is always undertaken from a definite point of view, a new book concedes. But it enlarges our knowledge of the world through the interplay of different perspectives.
Thinkers trying to reconcile incompatible theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity