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390 gravitational wave detections reveal hidden population of black holes
Scientists at the University of Glasgow are celebrating the release of a massive new catalog of gravitational wave detections that marks another major step forward for gravitational wave astronomy. The newly published Gravitational Wave Transient Catalogue-5.0 (GWTC-5) has been released online, with companion research papers submitted to Astrophysical Journal and Astrophysical Journal Letters. The latest…
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ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart
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After the Concept of Peaceful Disobedience Was Established in America, It Traveled Around the World Before Taking Hold
America at 250: The Revolutionary Spark A Smithsonian magazine special report “Force may subdue, but love gains”: The Quaker practice of conscientious objection evolved through Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi before becoming the hallmark of the Civil Rights movement Jeff MacGregor | Writer-at-Large, Smithsonian Summer 2026 Getty Images The 1955-56 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, was won by the…
