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Massive Cosmic Test Shows Newton And Einstein Still Explain Gravity Accurately Authored by Neetika Walter via Interesting Engineering, Scientists have tested gravity across some of the largest structures in the universe and found that it behaves exactly as predicted by long-standing physical laws. Galaxies and clusters trace gravity’s pull across the universe.iStock Photos Researchers led by University of Pennsylvania used data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to examine how galaxy clusters move across vast cosmic distances. Their results show that gravity weakens with distance in line with the inverse-square law first described by Isaac...

Meta Faces Unprecedented Legal Reckoning Over Youth Mental Health As Massive Multistate Trial Begins Meta Platforms is facing a critical juncture in its battle over youth online safety. Just weeks after suffering a massive legal defeat in New Mexico, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram is now defending itself in a California federal court against a bipartisan coalition of 29 states. The states say Meta deliberately designed its platforms to addict children and harvested their data in violation of federal law. The California Showdown A sweeping multistate trial opens Tuesday in...

How Contagious Is Ebola? More than 200 people are suspected to have died in Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, according to the latest figures published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on May 29. The vast majority of these are in the DRC. With no vaccine available for this strain, the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern on May 17. As Statista's Anna Fleck details below, Ebola is a severe and often fatal disease which is spread through direct contact with blood, secretions or...