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Earth science

It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

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It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

At last, a third Nobel, but it has been a decidedly mixed week for female physicists

Leader

Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3m Breakthrough prize for pulsars discovery

Physics

Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3m Breakthrough prize for pulsars discovery

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Liu

Life

Exclusive: Chinese sci-fi genius Cixin Liu on humanity's deadly future

Culture

US Vice President making a speech in front of a NASA logo, an American flag and a picture of the moon

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Why an orbiting moon station is the worst idea of the new space age

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A 4D-printed model of the Sydney Opera House

Technology

Watch 4D-printed ceramics form elaborate, shape-shifting structures

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Cyberman

Life

From Ancillary Justice to Saga, savour the best sci-fi writing

Culture

We might only see time because we can’t think in quantum physics

Physics

We might only see time because we can’t think in quantum physics

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Levitating glass particles are fastest spinning objects ever seen

Space

Levitating glass particles are fastest spinning objects ever seen

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Don't miss: amateur surgery, aqua-activism and a twisted Turing test

Life

Don't miss: amateur surgery, aqua-activism and a twisted Turing test

Culture

Is this our first clue to a world beyond quantum theory?

Physics

Is this our first clue to a world beyond quantum theory?

Our best theory of physical reality is exquisite – but inexplicable. A low, unexplained experimental noise could herald a revolution in the making

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Health

Quantum dots in brain could treat Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases

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Space

Trio of stars shows Einstein is still right about relativity

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Space

Australia is launching a space agency, but what will it do?

Analysis

Physics

How to think about... Schrödinger's cat

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