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The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843.

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Unraveling the cosmic symphony of gravitational waves, from the 'Music of the Spheres' to moon-based detectors.

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"With this, we can detect very tiny changes in both position and momentum at once, beyond the limit of any classical sensor," the authors explained.

Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot ...