Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. Many of science’s most important breakthroughs, from the discovery of microorganisms to the theory of ...

This artist’s impression shows the locations of multiple radio observatories across the planet, which participated in a pilot experiment conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration ...

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