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Seams on a baseball shift its trajectory by unexpectedly large amount

When a baseball is tilted and spinning just right, its raised, hand-stitched seams skew the process by which its wake is created and radically shift its trajectory in the air

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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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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

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Six laser beams cool and trap atoms before sending them into the interferometer

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

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Car mechanic fixing flywheel

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Quantum flywheel could be fashioned from super-sized charged atoms

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Monika Schleier-Smith

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The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch

Monika Schleier-Smith is testing the idea that space-time emerges, like a hologram, from quantum interactions by attempting to make it in the lab

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

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Her Space, Her Time review: Trailblazing women astronomers

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Large Hadron Collider turned into world's biggest quantum experiment

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Force that holds atoms together measured more precisely than ever

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