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100 years before quantum mechanics, one scientist glimpsed a link between light and matter

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.

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Surviving the Great Flattening: The coming extinction of the middle manager

For a century, firms built moats around knowledge, the exact layer of experts in the middle that is now being thinned from the herd.

Fortune

New entanglement breakthrough links cores of atoms, brings quantum computers closer

Quantum entanglement — once dismissed by Albert Einstein as “spooky action at a distance” — has long captured the public imagination and puzzled even seasoned scientists.

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Logical Thinking Is Required For This 30-Question Science Quiz: Prove Yourself

Welcome to a brand-new science quiz. 🧪🧑‍🔬Whether you’re on Einstein’s wavelength or you navigate a completely different one, you’ll face 30 questions designed to test your curiosity, sharpen your logic, and stretch your scientific imagination.Expect a mix of biology, chemistry, and physics.

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LIGO Legacy: 10 incredible gravitational wave breakthroughs to celebrate observatory's landmark 2015 find

The first-ever detection of gravitational waves was made 10 years ago today (Sept. 14). In celebration, Space.com takes you through the most significant gravitational wave discoveries to date.

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Science history: Gravitational waves detected, proving Einstein right — Sept. 14, 2015

When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set off a whole new era in astronomy.

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Black hole discovery validates Stephen Hawking’s research after five decades

Black holes may be the fiercest objects in the universe, yet we still know very little about them

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50 Historical Photos And Their Intriguing Or Heartbreaking Backstories

Do you think they ever thought their pictures would be posted online?

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The discovery of a gravitational wave 10 years ago shook astrophysics – these ripples in spacetime continue to reveal dark objects in the cosmos

Scientists first detected ripples in space known as gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes in September 2015. This discovery marked the culmination of a 100-year quest to prove one of Einstein’s predictions.

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10 years ago, gravitational waves changed astronomy. A new discovery shows there’s more to come

Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a key prediction from Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity and began a new era of astronomy.

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Crashing black holes validate Stephen Hawking – new research

Black holes may be the fiercest objects in the universe, yet we still know very little about them. It has only been a decade since we confirmed their existence by detecting gravitational waves: ripples in the fabric of spacetime.

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Stephen Hawking's long-contested black hole theory finally confirmed — as scientists 'hear' 2 event horizons merge into one

Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a decades-old Stephen Hawking theory.

LiveScience

Gravitational wave detector confirms theories of Einstein and Hawking: 'This is the clearest view yet of the nature of black holes'

Celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black holes, LIGO has confirmed the predictions of the greatest minds in physics.

Space

Gravitational waves reveal 'stellar graveyard' packed with neutron star and black hole mergers

Astronomers have doubled the number of black hole and neutron star mergers detected via gravitational waves in a "stellar graveyard," as well as "hearing" the heaviest black hole binary yet.

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‘Historical time’ helps students truly understand the complexity of the past – and how they fit into it

Was the Franco dictatorship a cause or consequence of the Spanish Civil War? Was Einstein a medieval scientist? Confusions like these are quite common among secondary school students, who tend to learn history as a rote series of names and dates in varying degrees of detail.

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Wedding Photographer Slated In Public For Allegedly Ruining The Life Of One Guest, Drama Ensues

During wedding photoshoot a photographer gets confronted by a woman claiming she ruined her life.

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Ripples from the Big Bang could transform our understanding of the universe — and we may be close to detecting them

It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ripples from the Big Bang, but they could change our understanding of the entire universe.

Space

Nobel prize winner and gravitational wave pioneer Rainer Weiss dies at 92

MIT professor, Nobel prize winner, and renowned astrophysicist Rainer Weiss has passed away at the age of 92.

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Warped spacetime with surprise 'double-zoom' reveals radiation around distant supermassive black hole

A happy coincidence and a theory first put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago helped scientists detect faint radiation around a distant supermassive black hole.

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Albert Einstein’s Simple (Yet Genius) Key To Building Wealth That Anyone Can Harness

Albert Einstein called compound interest the "8th wonder." Learn how this simple wealth-building tool can double your money -- no genius intellect required.

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What, exactly, is space-time?

Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time — the interwoven fabric of space and time at the heart of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.

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Saquon Barkley Opens Up About 2,000 Yards, the Super Bowl and What’s Next

After winning it all with the Eagles, the star says he’s just entering his prime and ready to reframe the so-called running back resurgence.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’d never seen anything like it’: Lucinda Childs on the extraordinary worlds of Robert Wilson

The dancer and choreographer recalls five decades of collaboration with the visionary stage director, including Einstein on the Beach

The Guardian - UK

Are you an otrovert? Why this personality type could be your greatest gift

Feel like you don’t belong? Crave emotional independence? Constantly come up with original ideas? Like Frida Kahlo, Franz Kafka and Albert Einstein, you could have a distinct case of otroversion ...

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The most powerful tool in an astronomer’s arsenal is a lens – but not the kind you might think

Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in comparison to the power of nature’s own “cosmic magnifying glasses” – strong gravitational lenses.

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