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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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Human colonization of space would be terrifyingly hard, and that's the best thing about it
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On Hidden Figures and Being the Only Woman in the Room
The Oscar-nominated film illuminates just one group of women whose contributions have long gone unrecognized
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The Most Important Idea about the Universe
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If life can thrive miles underground on Earth, it might be able to thrive in the subsurface on other worlds
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Astronomers will soon start looking at Beta Pictoris for 300 days without blinking to find out what's responsible for a mysterious series of dimmings
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How to Get Back to the Moon in 4 Years--This Time to Stay
The answer is pretty straightforward: turn to private industry
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Einstein's Greatest Blunder?
He abandoned the idea of a static, nonexpanding universe in 1929—but some physicists are beginning to reconsider it
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This Ain't Your Grandma's SETI
Technological advances, plus a push to send signals to aliens, not just listen for them—means we need to think more about what happens when we make a discovery...
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