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Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

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