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How 'quantum software developer' became a job that actually exists

While quantum computers are still in their infancy, more and more people are training to become quantum software developers

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The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

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The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

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Physics

Quantum theory is challenging long-standing ideas about entropy

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Tiniest 'ruler' ever measures distances as small as an atom's width

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Physics

This test could reveal whether gravity is subject to quantum weirdness

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Physics

Certain quantum systems may be able to defy entropy's effects forever

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The physicist who argues that there are no objective laws of physics

Physics

The physicist who argues that there are no objective laws of physics

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Space may be filled with more antimatter than we can explain

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Physics

Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered

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Physics

We physicists could learn a lot by stepping beyond our specialisms

A recent atomic physics workshop was outside my dark matter comfort zone, but learning about science beyond my usual boundaries was invigorating, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea

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Physics

Why the words we use in physics obscure the true nature of reality

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Technology

Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested from empty space

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Physics

Our reality seems to be compatible with a quantum multiverse

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