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Jim Al-Khalili: A brief history of gravity

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Jim Al-Khalili: A brief history of gravity

Gravity shapes the cosmos, but we don’t understand it. Physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili takes a tour of black holes and gravitational waves and asks: what we are missing?

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Could the world's mightiest computers be too complicated to use?

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Very Large Telescope

Physics

There's a glitch at the edge of the universe that could remake physics

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A laser

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Laser beams have gravity and can warp the fabric of the universe

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10 mysteries of the universe: What is dark matter?

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10 mysteries of the universe: What is dark matter?

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A coin toss

Physics

Quantum mechanics may contradict itself when applied to big objects

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Antimatter seen in two places at once thanks to quantum experiment

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Antimatter seen in two places at once thanks to quantum experiment

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A quantum circuit

Technology

Google just made it much harder to build a serious quantum computer

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A sound wave

Physics

Sound waves are a form of antigravity because they have negative mass

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We might only see time because we can’t think in quantum physics

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We might only see time because we can’t think in quantum physics

Humans need much more information to study a problem backwards in time than forwards, but a quantum computer can ignore the flow of time all together

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Space

Levitating glass particles are fastest spinning objects ever seen

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Physics

Is this our first clue to a world beyond quantum theory?

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Health

Quantum dots in brain could treat Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases

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Physics

How to think about... Schrödinger's cat

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