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We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?

The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's why companies are scrambling to refine them from all manner of radioactive waste

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The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China

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New Scientist of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, December 15, 2025. Anatoly Doroshenko

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The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor

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Chernobyl 2022

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Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster

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Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time

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Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton

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Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time

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Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time

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How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end

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Cracked blue bowl with equations, stars, planets and galaxies decorating its exterior. It is cracked but golden glue sticks it back together.

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We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together

For decades, scientists have tried and failed to explain how the force that binds the heart of atoms together really works. But new mathematical tools are finally prising the problem open

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A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries

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How Anthony Leggett pushed the boundaries of quantum physics

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Computer finds flaw in major physics paper for first time

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Temperature gets a new definition using a quantum device

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