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nuclear physics

Physics

Bizarre test shows light can actually cast its own shadow

With the help of a ruby cube and two laser beams, researchers made one ray of light cast a shadow when illuminated by the other

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2C6F140 Atoms and their electron clouds , Quantum mechanics and atomic structure

Physics

You can't put a price on the sense of awe particle physics inspires

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Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them

Physics

Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them

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Physics

Quantum Rubik's cube has infinite patterns but is still solvable

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Physics

Knots made in a weird quantum fluid can last forever

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2X1H226 Klosterneuburg - Sir Roger Penrose during interview with Austria Presse Agentur at Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria on 21st May 2015. Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. - 20150521_PD11744 - Rechteinfo: Rights Managed (RM)

Physics

What is the price of genius, asks biography of Roger Penrose

Culture

Physics

Heat can flow backwards in a gas so thin its particles never touch

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Physics

We've seen particles that are massless only when moving one direction

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Environment

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

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Physics

Quantum batteries could give off more energy than they store

Simulations suggest that when a quantum battery shares a quantum state with the device it is powering, the device can gain more charge than was stored in the battery to begin with

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Physics

Quantum 'Schrödinger's cat' survives for a stunning 23 minutes

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Physics

Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science

Culture

Physics

Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

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Physics

Indestructible quantum rifts can exist in two places at once

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