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Stephen Hawking’s legacy honoured with new 50p coin
It’s hard to imagine how you’d get something as massive as a black hole onto something as small as a 50p ($0.65) coin. But the Royal Mint just did exactly that.
In honour of the renowned British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who passed away in 2018, the Royal Mint is issuing a special coin featuring a black hole design and the equation S=kAc^3/4hG, the so-called Bekenstein–Hawking equation.
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The Royal Mint shared a video of the coin on Twitter, saying that the coin is in commemoration of Hawking’s “outstanding contribution to science.” Read more…
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Google’s year in search 2018: the World Cup, Fortnite GIFs and Bitcoin
Google’s annual Year in Search is more than a digital record of the events, stories and phenomena that captured our attention over 12 months. It’s a reckoning, or computation, on what mattered to society in any given year — and sometimes even signal where it’s headed. And 2018 showed a world transfixed on one sporting […]
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Avery Haskell says he first knew he wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a boy growing up in Houston near NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The 24 year-old Stanford graduate who counts Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan as his heroes, grew up in an entrepreneurial family. In the early days of the Internet […]
View More Meet Shuttle, the company that’s building a booking agent for spaceflightStephen Hawking’s final paper about black holes is now online
Stephen Hawking passed away earlier this year at the age of 76, but his incredible intellect isn’t yet done contributing to the scientific community. The acclaimed physicist’s final paper is now online for anyone to read and it revisits some mysteries of the physical world that came to define his illustrious career. Titled “Black Hole […]
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Stephen Hawking’s voice is speeding through space.
The famed cosmologist, who passed away in March at the age of 76, always dreamed of flying to space, and now, his voice is on a journey through the cosmos.
Greek composer Vangelis, best known for composing the theme for the film Chariots of Fire, created an original score that reportedly spans six and a half minutes and features Hawking’s own voice halfway through.
That piece of music was sent out from a satellite dish in central Spain today as Hawking was laid to rest in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Read more…
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View More Stephen Hawking’s voice is being sent to a black hole light-years from EarthVR helps us remember
Researchers at the University of Maryland have found that people remember information better if it is presented in VR vs. on a two dimensional personal computer. This means VR education could be an improvement on tablet or device-based learning. “This data is exciting in that it suggests that immersive environments could offer new pathways for […]
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Katie Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist, meaning it’s her job to think about the greatest mysteries of the cosmos. She specializes in cosmology, following in the footsteps of people like Stephen Hawking, and truly wants to answer the big questions: How was the universe formed and how might it end? In fact, she’s writing a book about different ways the universe might cease to exist—and she’s pretty excited about it. Read more…
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Time travelers have been invited to Stephen Hawking’s memorial service
A thousand people have been invited to attend a June memorial service for theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, whose ashes will forever be interred next to Sir Isaac Newton’s in the halls of the 11th century Westminster Abbey church.
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Benedict Cumberbatch totally revealed ‘Star Trek’ spoilers to Stephen Hawking
When you’re dealing with a big blockbuster movie like Star Trek, it’s crucial to keep the plot a secret.
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Stephen Hawking gave a heartwarming final gift to the people of Cambridge
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While the funeral for Stephen Hawking was taking place in Cambridge, UK on Saturday, the legendary scientist’s final gift was also well underway — a free Easter lunch to help hungry people in the city.
The meal was prepared by volunteers from the charity FoodCycle, who regularly supply free meals for those in poverty using surplus food.
On Saturday the food was provided by Hawking’s family.
Thank you to the family of #StephenHawking for so generously supporting today’s @FoodCycleCamb lunch in his memory..pic.twitter.com/rStJimtVJ5
— Alex Collis (@AlexCollisCam) March 31, 2018 Read more…
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Hundreds gather to bid farewell to Stephen Hawking
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Beloved physicist Stephen Hawking was honored at a private funeral service on Saturday.
Hundreds of people gathered outside Great St. Mary’s Church in Cambridge, U.K. for the event, which was attended by about 500 of the scientist’s family, friends, students, and collaborators. Attendees included Elon Musk, Chuck Lorre, Brian May, Lily Cole, and others.
Streets filled for Stephen Hawking’s funeral today pic.twitter.com/OYwt2CFnH3
— Haskan Kaya (@HaskanKaya) March 31, 2018
Inside, according to NBC News, Eddie Redmayne (who played Hawking in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything) read from Ecclesiastes. Two people delivered eulogies. Read more…
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