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Download PodCast Nature 27 August 2025
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00:48 How the “Great Fear” spread in the eighteenth century across the countryside France
In the late eighteenth century, rural France was suffering from rapid rumors of aristocratic conspiracies to suppress revolutionary ideas. But how and why, these rumors were able to spread so quickly that historians baffled. Now, using modern epidemic modeling, the team indicates that a range of high wheat prices, income and literacy has paid this period of French history known as the great fear.
Research article: Zapperi et al.
news: A permanent mystery of the French Revolution – by epidemics is resolved
12:40 Research Research
Unconventional interpretation of dark energy – in addition, and how the small lamb predators overcame the extinction.
Highlighting research: Do you spawn dark energy from black holes? It can be a bright idea
Highlighting research: The small Australian predator challenges drought to recover from near progress
15:13 quantum interpretation test
Physicists differ widely in their interpretations of quantum mechanics, and they also do so nature Readers, according to us CosmoA inspired contest. The quantum world is famous for the interpretations of the sporting foundations ranging from cognitive, which describes only information, to reality, where the map of equations is on the real world. The test indicates that many readers prefer realism, even if it is difficult to communicate with the same physics.
feature: Physicists do not agree heavily on what quantum mechanics say about reality, and nature scanning shows
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