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It’s possible for a show to cook so hard that all you can do is list the ingredients, then get the hell away from the stove. Foundation Season 3 is such a show. And here, in no real order, is a list ...

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New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in forming the ...