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Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

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The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space-time could present an answer ...

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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol advanced another step toward general availability on July 6 when an OpenAI Codex engineer publicly confirmed that Sol Ultra — the model's highest-compute tier — would ship inside ...