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Gas leaving a galaxy

Space

Gas halo flips galaxies from bright young things into has-beens

Deep inside every galaxy is a tug of war between its forming stars and its voracious black hole, and its gas and mass that can make the difference

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Mathematicians finally starting to understand epic ABC proof

Physics

Mathematicians finally starting to understand epic ABC proof

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magnetic images

Physics

See beautiful magnetic liquids bloom into stunning shapes

Regulars

Squishy cubes with a secret smile could be used for prosthetics

Technology

Squishy cubes with a secret smile could be used for prosthetics

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Robert Byer

Space

How lasers found gravitational waves – and could hunt for aliens

Features

Dark matter no-show puts favoured particles on death row

Physics

Dark matter no-show puts favoured particles on death row

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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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Artists impression of superatoms

Physics

First superatom molecules pave way for new breed of electronics

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warhead

Physics

How to expose a fake nuke without revealing what's inside

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Einstein's clock: The doomed black hole to set your watch by

Space

Einstein's clock: The doomed black hole to set your watch by

Every 12 years, a black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy completes an orbit around an even bigger black hole, marking this with a violent outburst

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Space

Mysterious swoosh caused by pulsars hugging companions close

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Space

Largest-ever map of 1.2 million galaxies measures dark energy

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Technology

Graphene sheets open like a flower’s petals when poked

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Physics

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

Features