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Topic: Gravity

DNA double helix among the stars (Getty Images/PASIEKA)

Scientists detect “DNA of the universe”

Matthew Rozsa
This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk - a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole - and a jet of hot gas, called plasma. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Black hole "starving" galaxy to death

Matthew Rozsa
Gravitation waves, 3D illustration (Getty Images/andreusK)

Hunting for sources of gravitational hum

Nicole Karlis
In this artist’s interpretation, a pair of supermassive black holes (top left) emits gravitational waves that ripple through the fabric of space-time. (Photo courtesy of Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration)

Scientists “hear” gravitational wave hum

Nicole Karlis
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MOND models—which don’t require dark matter—have not previously been able to reproduce the temperature variations measured in the cosmic microwave background (shown here), a relic from the big bang. But now researchers have created a MOND-inspired model that matches these data just as well as dark matter models do. (WMAP Science Team/NASA)

Perhaps dark matter doesn't exist at all

Nicole Karlis
(Paramount)

"Arrival" mystery throughout

Nico Lang
(Armin Rose/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams

Sarah Gray
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(Albert Einstein, 1921 Ferdinand Schmutzer via Wikimedia Commons)

Sarah Gray

Sarah Gray
Sandra Bullock in "Gravity"

Sarah Gray
Matthew McConaughey accepts the Oscar for best actor for his role in "Dallas Buyers Club" at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California March 2, 2014. (REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

Hollywood's conflicted selfie

Andrew O'Hehir
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(Screenshot, NBC)

Lindsay Abrams
Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender in "12 Years a Slave." (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Oscar's 3-way tie: "12 Years"

Andrew O'Hehir
Sandra Bullock in "Gravity"

An Oscar for dazzling science?

Andrew O'Hehir
Sandra Bullock in "Gravity"

Daniel D'Addario
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Christian Bale in "American Hustle"

Breaking Oscar's 3-way tie

Andrew O'Hehir
Quvenzhané Wallis in "Beasts of the Southern Wild," Philip Seymour Hoffman in "A Most Wanted Man"

Movies: Not dead after all!

Andrew O'Hehir
"Stories We Tell," "Inside Llewyn Davis"

The Oscars aren't about art

Andrew O'Hehir
Judi Dench in "Philomena"

Best actress

Daniel D'Addario
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Oscar nominations announced

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(AP/Paul Drinkwater)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Eileen Jones - Jacobin
(AP/Paul Drinkwater)

Daniel D'Addario
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