It isn’t often that physics produces news that diverts the mainstream media from politics, crime and sports. But, now, in the space of four years’ time, physicists have twice elevated the intellectual ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Gravity equations have been widely used to infer trade flow effects of various institutional arrangements. We show that estimated gravity ...

Researchers from Penn State University and the University of Virginia show that the spread of diseases by insects can be described by equations similar to those that describe the force of gravity ...

Black holes have been a part of popular culture for decades now. They played a central role in the plot of the 2009 Star Trek movie, for example. No wonder. These dark remnants of collapsed stars seem ...

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