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“Cosmic Solitude” is an exploration of solitude and isolation in what was probably the Soviet Union's largest cosmic ray research station, located in my homeland Armenia. Today, only three people live and work at this station 24 hours a day, all year round. [...]

"Physik mit Bleistift" ist eine ungewöhnlich lebendige Einführung in das mathematische Rüstzeug, das sich jeder Studierende naturwissenschaftlicher Ausrichtung aneignen muss. Mit Analogien und Bezügen zum Alltag gelingt es hier, sonst trockenen Stoff in echtes Verstehen von Natur umzusetzen [...]

"The thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story of the physics that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb Although Henri Becquerel didn't know it at the time, he changed history in 1895 when he left photographic plates and some uranium rocks in a drawer. The rocks emitted something that exposed the plates: it was the first documented evidence of spontaneous radioactivity [...]