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New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may hold far more rock than expected, raising questions about how these distant planets formed.

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For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth ...

Note: The authors and contributors to this statement had initially envisioned that it would be published as an official statement from the Society for the ...

A candid portrait of Einstein, captured in a quiet moment and signed in his familiar slanted style. Beneath the image, he ...

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