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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
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In Support of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
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It lets aerospace engineers develop high-quality parts much faster than they could with traditional fabrication methods
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Racing toward Absolute Zero
A lab at the University of Cambridge is looking for materials that have weird quantum properties at the coldest temperatures possible
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Bridging a Binary Universe
Modern physicists continue to enshrine the split between the heavens and the earth perceived by our ancestors
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Tardigrades Were Already on the Moon
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A gift led me to think about an old geologic controversy
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