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materials science

Ions held in place by a laser

Technology

Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap

The ions could act as qubits in a quantum simulator to search for new properties of metals, or act as a quantum computer – if we can control them individually

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Buckminster Fuller

Technology

How future-proof are the ideas of Buckminster Fuller?

Culture

A tabby cat's face peeking out of a box, green eye

Physics

Schrödinger's cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half

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painting of Mary Somerville

Humans

The lost women of Enlightenment science

Features

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Humans

Family or science: women shouldn't have to choose

Leader

Emilie du Chatelet

Physics

The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton's physics

Features

free will

Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

Features

A transparent ball of glue, close up, with a white strand of spider silk going into it, twirling around and comnig out the other end. Looks cool and abstract

Technology

Artificial spider silk mimics how it acts as liquid and solid

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Layout of 5-cubit device

Technology

Try your hand at programming IBM's online quantum computer

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Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

Physics

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

The Large Hadron Collider has suffered a power outage after the unfortunate critter chewed on a 66 kilovolt electrical transformer

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Space

That's odd: Quantum entanglement mangles space and time

Features

Technology

Fungal products won't win prizes for glamour but will be greener

Culture

Technology

Atomic memory could store US Library of Congress in a dust speck

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Physics

It's mind-blowing what our puny brains can do

Opinion

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