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Thanks to a mammoth klezmer digitization project, we can hear Jewish music that hasn't been played for generations.

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The strange house on 23rd Street — a trapezoid of plywood, shower glass and chain link fence — was the laughingstock of our Santa Monica neighborhood. Even Frank Gehry’s gardener joked about the ...

The strange house on 23rd Street — a trapezoid of plywood, shower glass and chain link fence — was the laughingstock of our ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

The Physics Library will close on Friday 19 December at 6:45pm. We will reopen with term-time hours from Monday 5 January 2026. Please note the Library will be closed on the following bank holidays ...

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

Several hundred volcanoes lie dormant beneath the Eifel in western Germany. They are typical examples of what is known as distributed volcanic fields. To better understand their formation and activity ...

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