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The Last Supper of Jesus Christ was on the Wednesday, and not the Thursday, before his death, according to a new study which claims to have solved “the thorniest problem in the New Testament”.

Evidence of an intense warming period in the Universe’s early history, described as a form of “cosmic climate change”, has been found by an international team of astronomers.

A proposal to design a spacecraft that would seek out habitable planets beyond our own solar system could become reality after receiving support from the UK Space Agency.

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It's space, but is it art? Stunning images of the galaxy are fast becoming common currency thanks to technology like the Hubble Space Telescope, but a unique investigation at the �������������Ī this week will seek to determine whether something strange is going on behind the scenes.

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A team of physicists from the Universities of �������������Ī and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called spinons and holons.

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As part of a unique collaborative agreement, the Japanese government has located a new research satellite at The Nanoscience Centre, �������������Ī.