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• Satellite captures HD video of earthrise over the moon (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

• String Theory in Two minutes (Discover Magazine)

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• 2007 Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance" (nobelprize.org)

• 2006 Nobel Prize in physics awarded to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot (nobelprize.org)