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The latest cosmic puzzle for scientists comes from the constellation Leo, roughly 240 lightyears from Earth. Astronomers, ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

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Navrotsky heads up the Navrotsky Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe at Arizona State University. The center ...

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