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Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

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Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Human clones, a colony on Mars, alien contact... what world-changing breakthroughs will come in the next decade? We asked the experts – with some surprising results

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Nanofridge could keep quantum computers cool enough to calculate

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5 impossible things the laws of physics might actually allow

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Quantum effects cloak impossible singularities with black holes

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Reality check: The hidden connections behind quantum weirdness

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Inside knowledge: Is information the only thing that exists?

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Inside knowledge: Why we'll never know everything

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How dark matter lost its shine for me

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Rules of attraction: Why it's time to rethink how gravity works

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Cooling to absolute zero mathematically outlawed after a century

The third law of thermodynamics has been a source of controversy since 1906, but now we have a concrete proof

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Fuzzy pulsars orbiting black holes could unmask quantum gravity

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The string-loop theory that might finally untangle the universe

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Cosmic uncertainty: Your skull is an amazing physics lab

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Cosmic uncertainty: Does time go both ways?

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