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The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Modern physics ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may make all the difference. Why does the universe exist? The universe exists ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...