Physics
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128Just Three Orbiting Black Holes Can Break Time-Reversal Symmetry
Most of the laws of physics don’t care which direction time is travelling. Forwards, backwards… either way, the laws work exactly the...
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153The fastest-spinning object ever made could help spot quantum friction in a vacuum
To detect the quantum friction of empty space, scientists are going for a spin.A twirling nanoparticle, suspended in a laser beam inside...
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143Scientists Have Successfully Built a Particle Accelerator Onto a Silicon Chip
Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are incredibly useful – and usually incredibly huge – instruments for studying some of the...
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158This New Type of ‘Quantum Camouflage’ Can Hide Heat Signatures From Infrared Vision
A unique material that appears to decouple an object’s temperature from the amount of thermal radiation it produces could provide a new...
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204New Quantum Physics Suggests Objective Reality Doesn’t Exist
Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now it seems they have even infected science – at least the quantum...
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191Physics Nobel awarded for discoveries about the universe’s evolution and exoplanets
Two sets of cosmic discoveries have garnered the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics. Half of the prize of 9 million Swedish kronor...
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207Physicists have found quasiparticles that mimic hypothetical dark matter axions
An elusive hypothetical particle comes in imitation form. Lurking within a solid crystal is a phenomenon that is mathematically similar to proposed...
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190Google officially lays claim to quantum supremacy
Quantum supremacy is here, researchers from Google claim. For the first time, a quantum computer has solved a problem that can’t be...
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170Trapping atoms in a laser beam offers a new way to measure gravity
By watching how atoms behave when they’re suspended in midair, rather than in free fall, physicists have come up with a new...
