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Illustrations of Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland

Physics

Donna Strickland is the third woman ever to win a physics Nobel Prize

The winner of the Nobel Prize in physics includes a woman for the first time in 55 years, going to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland

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Jess Wade giving a lecture

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It is 2018, so why are we still debating whether women can do physics?

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NASA’s ANITA detector

Physics

Weird signals in Antarctica could be hints of a new realm of physics

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Large Hadron Collider

Physics

The Higgs hunter has just turned 10. Why is nobody celebrating?

Leader

After the cat: Celebrating Schrödinger’s 75-year influence on biology

Physics

After the cat: Celebrating Schrödinger’s 75-year influence on biology

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CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons

Physics

CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons

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The ultraclean icicle and the droplet, after melting.

Technology

World’s cleanest drop of water reveals why nothing is ever truly clean

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key artwork

Physics

This one particle could solve five mega-mysteries of physics

Features

Snapped spaghetti

Physics

We have finally figured out how to snap spaghetti into two pieces

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Levitating glass particles are fastest spinning objects ever seen

Space

Levitating glass particles are fastest spinning objects ever seen

Tiny particles of glass have been trapped in a laser and spun at more than 1 billion times per second, the fastest rotation of any object ever seen

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Physics

How to think about... Particles

Features

Physics

How to think about... Time

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Physics

How to think about... Entropy

Features

Physics

Stars gravitate to Stephen Hawking’s memorial service

Culture

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