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Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...
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Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. Quantum ...