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In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies ...

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Our universe appears flat—but this observation still leaves plenty of options for its true shape. In fact, our cosmos could ...