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It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

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It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

At last, a third Nobel, but it has been a decidedly mixed week for female physicists

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Illustrations of Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland

Physics

Donna Strickland is the third woman ever to win a physics Nobel Prize

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Jess Wade giving a lecture

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It is 2018, so why are we still debating whether women can do physics?

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NASA’s ANITA detector

Physics

Weird signals in Antarctica could be hints of a new realm of physics

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A coin toss

Physics

Quantum mechanics may contradict itself when applied to big objects

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Large Hadron Collider

Physics

The Higgs hunter has just turned 10. Why is nobody celebrating?

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After the cat: Celebrating Schrödinger’s 75-year influence on biology

Physics

After the cat: Celebrating Schrödinger’s 75-year influence on biology

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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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CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons

Physics

CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons

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The ultraclean icicle and the droplet, after melting.

Technology

World’s cleanest drop of water reveals why nothing is ever truly clean

A thin film of molecular dirt coats everything the air touches. But until now, nobody knew what it was, or where it came from

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Physics

This one particle could solve five mega-mysteries of physics

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Physics

We have finally figured out how to snap spaghetti into two pieces

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Technology

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

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Physics

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

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