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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?

What life is and how the mind works fall within the compass of one bold concept. But critics say that by attempting to explain everything, it may end up explaining nothing

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Physics

Quantum theory is challenging long-standing ideas about entropy

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Physics

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

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

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Technology

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

A new design for a nuclear battery that generates electricity from the radioactive decay of americium is unprecedentedly efficient

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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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Physics

Cause and effect may not actually be muddled in the quantum realm

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