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At Aalto University in Finland, two physicists believe they may have cracked a puzzle that has defied generations of ...

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Scientists have potentially solved what many consider physics' most challenging problem – reconciling Einstein's theory of ...

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak ...

A bold new quantum theory of gravity may finally bridge the long-standing rift between Einstein’s general relativity and quantum field theory. This potential "Theory of Everything" could answer some o ...

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