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From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton’s second law.
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With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
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Crows have their own version of the human cerebral cortex.
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