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It arrives as audiences and filmmakers signal an openness to revisiting stories about women long shaped by men accustomed to processing female identity through a saint-sinner binary.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Two men becomes a binary competition with the assumption that one will win.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Stars in a very close binary can become tidally locked, meaning each star rotates on its axis at the same rate that the pair orbits one another.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Scientists believe that S301 was once part of a binary star system that was torn apart by the almighty pull of the black hole.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

I tried to explain to her about binary numbers, and how they were the system that computers used and how Dad said they were far superior to other numeric systems.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

He found that widely separated pairs of stars, known as binaries, are less common after one member of the pair becomes a white dwarf.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

One of the stellar binaries, known as G203-47, is now officially the ninth closest white dwarf to the Sun.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Future space-based gravitational wave observatories should be able to detect these binaries directly.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

The museum has physically invalidated the binaries of center and periphery, major and minor arts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

By the spectroscopic method the proportion is not so large; Campbell finding that about one quarter of 1,600 stars examined are spectroscopic binaries, and Frost two-fifths to a half.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd