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

Physics

Seven ways to skin Schrödinger’s cat

Quantum physicists just can't agree on how to handle the fundamental uncertainty that apparently underpins reality. We round up their best attempts so far

Features

Water waves travel back in time to retrace their ripples

Physics

Water waves travel back in time to retrace their ripples

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Our universe could be reborn as a bouncing baby cosmos

Space

Our universe could be reborn as a bouncing baby cosmos

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Photo of the outer ear

Health

Cochlear implants boosted by gene therapy plus tiny LEDs

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A flip clock reads 23:59:60

Space

Time for more 2016: leap second will be added to year's end

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Voltage Lab

Physics

Shocking beauty: The unexpected charms of the high-voltage lab

Regulars

Inside the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector

Physics

Neutrinos hint at why antimatter didn't blow up the universe

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Health

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A tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider

Earth

Huge newfound deposit of helium will keep MRI scanners running

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Two pictures of a beetle side by side showing the difference between images taken with left-handed and right-handed light. The beetle is bright in the left ahnd image and dark in the right hand image

Technology

Nano-camera lens reveals the hidden mirror world of molecules

Left- or right-handedness can be the difference between a medicine or poison. A camera lens made with nanotechnology may shed light on such mirror image molecules

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Physics

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

Features

Space

Find exomoons by watching how they warp their planet's light

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Space

The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray

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Space

Nearly naked black hole lost its 'clothes' to a gravity rip tide

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