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Space

Feedback: Lawmakers’ raw milk celebrations hit a sour note

Plus grated umbrella handles, string theory of tangled cables, UK police arrest the ban on everything, the national standard peanut butter, and more

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Physics

Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics – but only so far

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Life

Feedback: Blue miracle tonic is high on pH, low on evidence

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Puzzle game launched to help program quantum computers

Technology

Puzzle game launched to help program quantum computers

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Physics

Feedback: Quantum theory and the science of queueing

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Space

Beyond experiment: Why the scientific method may be old hat

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Physics

With science if at first you don’t succeed, keep trying

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Quantum weirdness may hide an orderly reality after all

Physics

Quantum weirdness may hide an orderly reality after all

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Space

Feedback: Mars is blue, says chronicler of space oddities

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Physics

A black hole's edge will burn you up if you try to escape

The edge of a black hole, beyond which not even light can escape, can be smooth an uneventful or a burning wall of fire, depending on your perspective

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Physics

Frozen quantum gas tied into knots for the first time

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Space

Can burping black holes reveal the true fabric of the universe?

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Technology

IBM to develop hardware to wipe out errors in quantum computing

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Life

Is quantum physics behind your brain's ability to think?

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