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I/ATLAS comet is the 3rd-ever object discovered that originated from outside our solar system. It's not a threat, approaches ...

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An international team of researchers in Singapore and Japan has developed a theoretical framework for creating hopfion crystals, which are complex, knot-like patterns of light that repeat across both ...