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From the popular Chinese science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem, the Earth-side space battleship “Natural Selection” commanded by Zhang Beihai is now available as a plastic model kit. [Thanks, ...

A rocket launch. Our nearest stellar neighbor. A Netflix show. All of these things have something in common: They must contend with the "three-body problem." But exactly what is this thorny physics ...

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Scientists studying the infamous 3-body problem have discovered certain "islands of regularity" that emerge from the gravitational chaos. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...