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Mystery of the quantum lentils: Are legumes exchanging secret signals?

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Mystery of the quantum lentils: Are legumes exchanging secret signals?

For 100 years, we have puzzled over the purpose of biophotons, low-level radiation emitted by all plants. Precision studies of lentils now hint that it could be a form of quantum communication

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High resolution images presents creating planets of the solar system. This image elements furnished by NASA.

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This mathematical trick can help you imagine space-time

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Baseball player

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Seams on a baseball shift its trajectory by unexpectedly large amount

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The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter

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The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter

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Illustration of an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray hitting Earth

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A mysterious, incredibly energetic cosmic ray has smashed into Earth

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Lasers fired at crystals could uncover quantum nature of the vacuum

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden

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How the US and China talking AI safety could reduce nuclear war risk

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The international space station

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Ultracold atoms in space will let us stress test Einstein's relativity

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An artist's impression of three merging black holes

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Why the quantum universe is weirder than you think

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Quantum batteries could charge better by breaking rules of causality

Taking advantage of a quantum phenomenon called indefinite causal order could make quantum batteries charge more efficiently

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World's most sensitive force sensor measures in ‘quectonewtons’

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Quantum flywheel could be fashioned from super-sized charged atoms

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The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch

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Strange upward lightning shoots out X-rays as it rises to the clouds

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