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Caption Illustration of the double-slit experiment, showing a plane wave (top left) passing through a screen with two gaps. The gaps act as new wave sources and the wavefronts bend to create two sets of circular waves radiating outwards. These two new waves create an interference pattern as they interact. At the point where a wave peak from one hits a wave peak from another, or a trough hits a trough, they reinforce each other; their magnitudes are summed. This is known as constructive interference. Where a trough hits a peak, they cancel each other out. This is known as destructive interference.

Physics

Light interacts with its past self in twist on double-slit experiment

The double-slit experiment consists of light passing through two slits separated by a small space – now researchers have performed it with small gaps in time instead

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Space

We may finally know how Hawking's black hole paradox could be solved

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2HX73TA Theoretical physics quark and gluon simulation. 3D illustration

Physics

Protons seem to be a different size depending on how you look at them

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New Scientists can calculate the shape colliding bubbles will form

Physics

51¶¯Âþs can calculate the shape colliding bubbles will form

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The ATLAS detector at the LHC

Physics

CERN measurement casts doubt on shocking W boson result

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Physics

Ultra-fast random number generator uses quantum fluctuations

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Physics

Supersized atoms could help quantum computers link to optical fibres

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Titan and Saturn as captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft

Space

Quantum effects could be key to the chemistry of life on Titan

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Google's Sycamore quantum computer

Technology

Quantum computers may finally have their first real practical use

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Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger's cat

Physics

Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger's cat

This physics-inspired circus performance enthralled attendees of the American Physical Society’s March Meeting, but a casual observer may have missed some of the scientific concepts that performers enacted

Culture

Space

How to understand wormholes and their weird quantum effects

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Physics

Antimatter neutrinos detected from a nuclear reactor 240 km away

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Physics

Quantum computers that use 'cat qubits' may make fewer errors

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Physics

Hidden corridor in Egypt’s Great Pyramid mapped with cosmic rays

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