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2X1H226 Klosterneuburg - Sir Roger Penrose during interview with Austria Presse Agentur at Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria on 21st May 2015. Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. - 20150521_PD11744 - Rechteinfo: Rights Managed (RM)

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What is the price of genius, asks biography of Roger Penrose

The Impossible Man by Patchen Barss salutes Roger Penrose's groundbreaking work in physics and mathematics while challenging the idea that a genius should be exempt from ordinary obligations

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Heat can flow backwards in a gas so thin its particles never touch

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We've seen particles that are massless only when moving one direction

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Quantum batteries could give off more energy than they store

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Quantum 'Schrödinger's cat' survives for a stunning 23 minutes

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UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in her laboratory in 1912, the year after she received here second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science

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Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

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Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

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Indestructible quantum rifts can exist in two places at once

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How 'quantum software developer' became a job that actually exists

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The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

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The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

What life is and how the mind works fall within the compass of one bold concept. But critics say that by attempting to explain everything, it may end up explaining nothing

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Quantum theory is challenging long-standing ideas about entropy

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Tiniest 'ruler' ever measures distances as small as an atom's width

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This test could reveal whether gravity is subject to quantum weirdness

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Certain quantum systems may be able to defy entropy's effects forever

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