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What Is Spacetime Really Made Of?

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Pig Kidneys Transplanted to Human in Milestone Experiment

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Ash Blanketing Tonga after Volcano Eruption Creates Health Concerns

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Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics

What Is Spacetime Really Made Of?

Adam Becker

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Pig Kidneys Transplanted to Human in Milestone Experiment

Joanna Thompson

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Ash Blanketing Tonga after Volcano Eruption Creates Health Concerns

Andrea Thompson

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Discarded 1990s Energy Invention Makes a Comeback

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To Fully Mitigate Climate Change, We Need to Curb Methane Emissions

Sean Casten | Opinion

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Billionaires Bankroll Cell Rejuvenation Tech as the Latest Gambit to Slow Aging

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Why the Tonga Eruption Was So Violent, and What to Expect Next

Research into earlier eruptions suggests this is the type of massive explosion the volcano sees about every thousand years

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Particle Physics

In a First, an ‘Atomic Fountain’ Has Measured the Curvature of Spacetime

The atom interferometry technique uses the effects of time dilation to reveal subtle changes in gravity’s strength

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Epstein-Barr Virus Found to Trigger Multiple Sclerosis

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We should work to protect others from falling into long-term social withdrawal

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Tracking the missiles is like picking out one light bulb against a background of light bulbs, but new technology aims to see them more clearly

Dogs Can Distinguish Speech from Gibberish—and Tell Spanish from Hungarian

A new study’s authors say their investigation represents the first time that a nonhuman brain has been shown to detect language

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