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Physics

Quantum trick sees two things happen before and after each other

By placing the order of two events into a quantum superposition, physicists have probed the nature of causality

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China's quantum communications satellite launches

Space

China launches world's first quantum communications satellite

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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

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Man peers at dangling circuitry

Technology

Quantum computing race heats up as trapped ions rival microchips

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Artwork showing a cube bearing circuitry and with light beams apparently playing on it

Technology

Error fix for long-lived qubits brings quantum computers nearer

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Physics

Collapse: Has quantum theory's greatest mystery been solved?

Features

What appears to be the same cat entwined in seven different ways with a box

Physics

Seven ways to skin Schrödinger’s cat

Features

Carlo Rovelli

Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

Features

A woman at a blackboard covered in equations

Humans

Quick fixes on stereotypes won’t mean more female scientists

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Ions held in place by a laser

Technology

Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap

The ions could act as qubits in a quantum simulator to search for new properties of metals, or act as a quantum computer – if we can control them individually

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Physics

Schrödinger's cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half

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Humans

The lost women of Enlightenment science

Features

Humans

Family or science: women shouldn't have to choose

Leader

Physics

The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton's physics

Features

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