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The brand new mystery-thriller Relative Danger premieres on the Lifetime Movie Network Friday, Nov. 7 at 8/7c. Starring Kirsten Comerford, Debra Hale, Jayne Heitmeyer and more, Relative Danger follows ...

All three winners of today’s 2025 Nobel Prize in physics are faculty at the University of California. The Nobel Prize committee honored John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...