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Top 10 science anniversaries of 2017

It’s time to celebrate pulsars, planets, Einstein, more Einstein and the laws of robotics

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

This year marks the semicentennial of the discovery of pulsars, first observed by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, shown here in 1968 at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, England.

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By Tom Siegfried

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