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Cooling and storing aluminium cans

Physics

Odd quantum property may let us chill things closer to absolute zero

We can already cool objects with fridges and with lasers. Now there is a third cooling technique involving special quantum states – and it could, in theory, allow us to reach the lowest temperatures yet

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Physics

A single atom could drive a piston in a quantum engine

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Space

Russia’s space weapon: Is it nuclear and does it pose a threat?

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Physics

Quantum quirk explains why carbon dioxide causes global warming

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The Cheshire cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Physics

Quantum Cheshire Cat effect may separate a particle from its momentum

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Space

In a new era of astronomy, we're feeling for vibrations in space-time

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Theory of everything and geometry

Physics

Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything

Features

Technology

Quantum computer uses a time crystal as a control dial

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Rendering of 192 laser beams as they reach the target in the center of the National Ignition Facility’s Target Chamber

Physics

Nuclear fusion reaction releases almost twice the energy put in

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Physics

Record broken for the coldest temperature reached by large molecules

Four-atom molecules glued together by microwaves have broken the record for being the most complicated molecule to reach temperatures just billionths of a degree away from absolute zero

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Physics

A bold new take on quantum theory could reveal how reality emerges

Features

Physics

Heating and cooling seem to be fundamentally different, not opposites

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Technology

First 'thermodynamic computer' uses random noise to calculate

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Comment

The top 10 movies about the multiverse according to a physicist

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