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Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Life

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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Abstract image of two glowing orbs surrounded by spirals of light

Physics

Wiggling atom probes buddy molecule without disturbing it

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Centimeter-sized silicon chip, which has two parallel superconducting oscillators and the quantum-circuit refrigerators connected to them

Technology

Nanofridge could keep quantum computers cool enough to calculate

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Physics

5 impossible things the laws of physics might actually allow

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Physics

Time crystals: A new state of matter that outlasts the universe

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Laser workbench

Physics

Three-atom molecule cooled to near absolute zero for first time

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Optical image of a portion of Virgo cluster

Space

Many tiny galaxies could host mammoth black holes

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Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea

Space

Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea

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Pierre and Marie Curie

Humans

Up and atom: The fights to put people into the periodic table

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Runners tying shoelaces

Physics

Physics of shoelaces shows why they come undone when you run

Slow-motion video and weights tied to the ends of pendulums reveal that the stomping and whipping of our feet cause shoelaces to unknot

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Earth

Lightning round-up: The world’s weirdest electricity

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Space

Quantum effects cloak impossible singularities with black holes

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Physics

Waste-munching bacteria could make nuclear stores safer

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Technology

Twisted semiconductors could help project moving holograms

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