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Quantum physics

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Quantum physics

Quantum physics underlies how atoms work, and so why chemistry and biology work as they do. You, me and the gatepost – at some level at least, we’re all dancing to the quantum tune.

Schrödinger’s cat

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Schrödinger’s cat

Uncertainty principle

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Uncertainty principle

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Working hypothesis: From slow ramblers to asteroid Ryugu

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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

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Don't miss: Kubrick's genius, Haida mythology and the power of emotion

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Strong eruption at Mount Sinabung generating large pyroclastic flow

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Hot rubble from volcanoes races over land on a carpet of air bubbles

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Einstein quiz: Can you guess which quotes are really his?

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Einstein quiz: Can you guess which quotes are really his?

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Linear collider

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Japan inches towards building a successor to Large Hadron Collider

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Don't miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game

Peek behind the scenes of the lab at London's Francis Crick Institute, hear all about the proposed particle accelerator at CERN and play a new video game

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Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe

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Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth

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Evidence of new physics could have been under our noses all along

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5 of the world’s toughest unsolved maths problems

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