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quantum gravity

Cartoon of an x-ray

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Quantum X-ray machine takes razor sharp pictures with less radiation

By shining an X-ray beam through a diamond, scientists have made X-rays with unique quantum properties that let them make sharper images using less radiation

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Artist's impression of two quantum particles

Physics

Quantum teleportation used to send 3D information for the first time

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quantum artwork

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Quantum weirdness isn't real – we've just got space and time all wrong

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A classic quantum theorem may prove there are many parallel universes

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A classic quantum theorem may prove there are many parallel universes

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Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Physics

Physicists who came up with supergravity win $3m Breakthrough Prize

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To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

Physics

To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

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Jim Al-Khalili

Physics

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili on Leeds United, Einstein and quantum biology

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Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

Physics

Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

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Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe's radical new fate

Physics

Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe's radical new fate

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Dark energy

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Dark energy

Dark energy is a mysterious force making the universe fly apart faster and faster.   Its discovery came from one of the most unexpected results in the history of astronomy: in the late 1990s, two groups studying far-off supernovae discovered that these explosions of dying, overmassive stars were consistently fainter than expected.

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Quantum mechanics

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String theory

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How did the universe begin?

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Roger Penrose

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