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The big thinkers at Aperture explain the Golden Ratio and why it appears throughout nature and art.

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The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.

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Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals. Earth's seasonal cycles can vary dramatically across short distances, even at the ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.