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A 21st-century archivist should be commended for the revival of Radha's inspiring story, rediscovered from forgotten letters, academic records and oral history.

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Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and ...

Physicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have a novel plan to uncover an unknown fifth force of nature long theorized to exist ...

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A co-founder of String theory, in this video Kaku "delivers a glimpse of where science will take us in the next hundred years, as warp drives, teleportation, inter-dimensional wormholes, and even time ...