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So things were looking up for consumer electronics giant Apple (AAPL) for a while there. It was rolling out new hardware, customers looked interested…everything you might want to see out of a major company’s new launch. Then the complaints started, and a new term floated around social media: “scratchgate.” The news gave investors a bit of a chill, and Apple …

What do you get when you stare at the same dead star for more than 20 years? Insight into the weirdest physics in the universe. The star PSR J0922+0638 is a pulsar. Pulsars are neutron stars — the ultradense leftover cores of long-dead stars — that spin rapidly and emit radiation at regular intervals. Pulsars have some of the wildest …