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Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: Phizzy Physics

Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth: Stephen Hawking

The Hindu · Jul 7, 2022

In the search for dark matter, an unexpected tool may give scientists hope

The science seems to be on the side of physicists hunting the stuff — but there's another unexpected source of help from the humanities: philosophy.

Inverse · Jun 26, 2022

Dark matter: should we be so sure it exists? Here's how philosophy can help

It has been more than 50 years since astronomers first proposed “dark matter”, which is thought to be the most common form of matter in the universe. Despite this, we have no idea what it is – nobody has directly seen it or produced it in the lab.

The Conversation · Jun 6, 2022