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Physics World May 2018

Physics World May 2018

Stephen Hawking’s scientific legacy: black holes, cosmology and quantum physics

Stephen Hawking, who died on 14 March 2018 at the age of 76, was the physicist the whole world knew. This issue examines Hawking’s scientific legacy through the eyes of Seth Lloyd from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who knew the great man, and includes some of his favourite Hawking anecdotes too. Elsewhere in the issue, you can discover the eight most promising wearable technologies for monitoring your health and find out why research into the mysteries of liquids could help us know what’s going on at high pressures inside planets like Jupiter.

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Testing the James Webb Space Telescope's mirror news

NASA delays James Webb Space Telescope

The Cancer Research UK Grand Challenge opinion

A cancer collaboration

Laser tag opinion

A day of light

black hole feature

Hawking’s gift

Wearable health technology feature

Making health digital

Steven Pinker opinion

Unenlightened thinking

feature

Liquid mysteries

The Dialogues artwork review

Take a teacher and a pupil

BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole review

From dust to dust

Radar imagery of Venus from the Magellan mission careers

Engineering a career in terahertz

The prosthetics pit lane at the Paralympic Games lateral thoughts

Life in the Paralympics ‘pit lane’

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