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In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

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Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing diamonds. Scientists recreat ...