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The basic design of a nuclear bomb is shockingly easy to find online. Actually building one is an entirely different matter.

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From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange ...

This is thanks to what’s called the Doppler effect – the way speed affects the length of waves, such as sound or light. When light changes colour due to speed, we call it redshift or blueshift ...