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Life, the cosmos and everything

03 Oct 2001

Cosmologists who study the link between life in the universe and the values of the physical constants were once viewed with suspicion by other scientists. But a recent high-profile conference at Cambridge showed that the subject is fast becoming academically respectable.

Stars in the making
The notion that certain features of the universe, such as the values of the physical constants, may

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