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The gravitational two-body problem has been fundamental to physics since Newton's time. With the advent of gravitational wave astronomy and the anticipated third generation of gravitational wave ...

We also look back to two early Nobel prizes, which were given for very puzzling reasons. One was awarded in 1908 to Gabriel ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

Can we reveal objects that are hidden in environments completely opaque to the human eye? With conventional imaging ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843.