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Physicists calculate when your elevator will arrive, International Space Station wine could sell for $1 million

07 May 2021 Hamish Johnston
Elevator symbol
Uplifting research: physicists have calculated when your elevator will arrive. (Courtesy: Another Believer/CC BY-SA 3.0)
If you are like me, you probably haven’t spent much time in lifts or elevators recently. But as li

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