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See the latest physics news and expert analysis on dark matter, the multiverse, theoretical and particle physics, quantum theory, and more from the world of physics.

Optical image of a portion of Virgo cluster

Physics

Many tiny galaxies could host mammoth black holes

The discovery of the second and third known ultra-compact dwarf galaxies with gargantuan black holes at their cores suggests such a mass mismatch may be common

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Physics

Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus鈥檚 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

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Physics of shoelaces shows why they come undone when you run

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Sprite lightning

Earth

Lightning round-up: The world鈥檚 weirdest electricity

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Black hole

Physics

Quantum effects cloak impossible singularities with black holes

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radioactive waste drums

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Waste-munching bacteria could make nuclear stores safer

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Princess Leia hologram

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Twisted semiconductors could help project moving holograms

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Environment

Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010

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Mars

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Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation

Models suggest Mars should be up to twice the mass of Earth, but it鈥檚 only one-tenth that, and Jupiter鈥檚 effects on the nascent solar system could be to blame

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Physics

Reality check: The hidden connections behind quantum weirdness

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Physics

Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy

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Physics

Gravitational waves slow the spin of shape-shifting neutron star

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Physics

Peter Higgs on knowledge, immortality and the future of physics

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