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An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

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Ten years ago, science confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s most elusive predictions: the existence of gravitational waves. Now ...

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For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast desert -- essentially, where ...

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