Pele’s hair – Tales from Hawaii: Part 1

Recently I’ve been on an amazing trip to Hawaii. I was planning to write about the observatories there. Then I saw this.

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It’s solidified lava! So… yeah… gotta talk about that!

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Top 5 stories in (and around) physics of 2016

Maybe 2016 hasn’t been a great year in general, but at least for science it has. A year full of discoveries: expected, missed, surprising. From Solar System exploration to the frontiers of artificial intelligence, from the atomically small to the immensely big, it has been a busy year!

Here’s my personal top 5 news of this year. Sit back. Enjoy.

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