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You hear it all the time. Hell, you might have even said it yourself (I know I have): “Hollywood’s out of ideas!” That sentiment can often seem true in a market where studio executives favor sequels ...

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

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