Thanks to Newton, we all know that what comes up must come down. But did you know that what comes down comes down with just slightly less pressure if you’re standing in Europe or the South Pacific? We ...

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On October 16, scientists announced the first observation of its kind: the detection of gravitational waves, wrinkles in spacetime predicted by Einstein more than a century ago, thrown off by two ...