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Time travel has long been a topic of science fiction, filled with thrilling possibilities and mind-bending problems. The most famous of these problems is the "grandfather paradox". If someone travels ...

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Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have shown that ...

But prime numbers are predictable, and scientists push our growing list of primes into new territory every day. In this ...

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