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This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the ...

For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope revealed Jupiter’s moons and shook the geocentric universe. Thomas Young’s ...