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Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback

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A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns

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AUDIO EDITION

Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes

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What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?

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Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?

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Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?

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A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness

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Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.

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Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill

AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities

Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

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Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder

A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws

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The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks

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A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets