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quantum physics

Ronald Richter

Physics

President Perón, I'll give you fusion in a bottle

Ronald Richter promised Argentina limitless nuclear energy by controlling the process that powers the sun, and President Perón lapped it up

Features

Garrett Lisi and Frank Wilczek

Physics

Surfer physicist wins superparticle bet with Nobel laureate

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China's quantum communications satellite launches

Space

China launches world's first quantum communications satellite

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Illustration of hydrogen atom with single proton at nucleus and single electron orbiting it

Physics

How big is a proton? No one knows exactly, and that's a problem

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LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

Physics

LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

Comment

Calculations on blackboard

Physics

More haste, less speed: Don't rush to publish premature theory

Leader

LHC

Physics

Physicists look to the future as new particle dream dies

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A view of one of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider

Physics

Physicists mourn as hinted particle vanishes in leaked LHC data

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Man peers at dangling circuitry

Technology

Quantum computing race heats up as trapped ions rival microchips

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A space scene

Space

Ghost particles may explain why gravity is so surprisingly weak

Gravity is weaker than it should be – a new theory suggests that’s because the universe is full of invisible particle families which ignore each other

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2-minute guide to particle physics

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The tube that kicked off particle physics

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Power, fame and the LHC: A machine at its peak

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Physics

Dark matter no-show puts favoured particles on death row

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