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Tonan Kamata, center, and Ryuhei Uehara, right, of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and Jin Akiyama, a professor emeritus at the Tokyo University of Science, are seen ...

Mathematicians have finally succeeded in unifying the laws of physics that govern the motions of particles at different scales. Their efforts resolve a question set by mathematician David Hilbert ...