>"It’s impossible to reduce gravity, but you can find some clever ways around it."

If and when physicists are able to pin down the metal content of the sun, that number could upend much of what we thought we knew about the evolution and life span of stars.

>"Giant blobs nestled deep in the Earth may influence everything from the structure of island chains to mass-extinction events."

The physicist Jeff Gore tests theories about microbe communities experimentally and finds new rules governing ecological stability.

Physicists have reached a long-sought goal. The catch is that their room-temperature superconductor requires crushing pressures to keep from falling apart.

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