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Albert Einstein’s been having quite a few weeks! First his “imaginary elevator” thought experiment was confirmed with unprecedented precision, then his theory of relativity was shown to create ...

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Gravity has suddenly become a hot topic in science. In the past few years, gravitational waves have been detected for the first time: ripples in the fabric of space, coming from colliding black holes ...