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Physics

Protons are lighter than thought, which may solve a big puzzle

A new experiment that makes the proton 30 billionths of a per cent lighter than before could help make sense of the glut of matter over antimatter in the cosmos

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A fine-tuned universe may be controversial but can't be ignored

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A fine-tuned universe may be controversial but can't be ignored

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Footballers move around pitch like chaotic particles in a fluid

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Time, mass and custard provide the physics in <i>The Earthworks</i>

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Time, mass and custard provide the physics in The Earthworks

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SPIDER reactor

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Inside the SPIDER facility, preparing for nuclear fusion tests

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Wiggling atom probes buddy molecule without disturbing it

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5 impossible things the laws of physics might actually allow

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Pierre and Marie Curie

Humans

Up and atom: The fights to put people into the periodic table

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Reality check: The hidden connections behind quantum weirdness

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Peter Higgs on knowledge, immortality and the future of physics

In a rare interview, the Nobel laureate who predicted the Higgs boson talks about the search for new physics and why we need knowledge for knowledge’s sake

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Space

Inside knowledge: Is information the only thing that exists?

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Space

Oddball star could be home to long-sought superheavy elements

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Cosmic uncertainty: Are there antimatter worlds out there?

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Cosmic uncertainty: Could quantum weirdness be even weirder?

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