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New Scientists inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

Physics

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run in a world powered purely by imagination

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We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers

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We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers

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Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr

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Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

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An artwork made my layering many paper cutouts, showing an astronaut near a black hole. Within the black hole are colourful swirls, stars and specks

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Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

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Physicists have worked out a universal law for how objects shatter

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We may need a fourth law of thermodynamics for living systems

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A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

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A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

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Yonathan Cohen at Quantum Machines speaking at AQC25 conference

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Quantum computers need classical computing to be truly useful

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Quantum computer core. Light rays passing through the nanoscale crystal core of a quantum computer. Quantum computers, which are under development, are based on quantum mechanics and the principle of representing information in quantum bits (qubits) using quantum properties. This could involve optical properties of chemically doped crystals, like the one shown here. Quantum computing has the potential to massively increase computing power.

Physics

An ambitious look at quantum physics is fun – but overdoes it a little

Attempts to describe quantum physics are rarely enjoyable, but Paul Davies' zeal in Quantum 2.0 sometimes steers too close to hype, finds Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe discuss their new spacebound album, Liminal

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Why quasicrystals shouldn’t exist but are turning up in strange places

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Quantum computers that recycle their qubits can limit errors

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The forgotten women of quantum physics

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