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Warp drive and aliens

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If physics fields had dating profiles

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Researchers pinpoint origin of fast radio burst

For the first time, a repeating fast radio burst first detected by CHIME has been pinpointed to its galaxy of…
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A new paradigm for artificial intelligence and physics

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