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Physics

How to measure anything – and fix the foundations of science

We're about to recalibrate the units that mark out reality – and it's forcing us to probe the stuff of the universe more precisely than ever before

Features

Plesiosaur X-ray helps create swimming robot mimic

Life

Plesiosaur X-ray helps create swimming robot mimic

Regulars

Physics of falling says professional athletes are running wrong

Humans

Physics of falling says professional athletes are running wrong

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I can use intensive-care data to save people's lives

Health

I can use intensive-care data to save people's lives

Opinion

Wonder stuff: Making every material you've never heard of

Technology

Wonder stuff: Making every material you've never heard of

Features

Gravitational-wave detector rebooted to sense clashing stars

Space

Gravitational-wave detector rebooted to sense clashing stars

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Clumps of gold nanoparticles can evolve to carry out computing

Technology

Clumps of gold nanoparticles can evolve to carry out computing

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How earthquakes can trigger copycat quakes 1000 kilometres away

Earth

How earthquakes can trigger copycat quakes 1000 kilometres away

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Technology

Magnetic repulsion

Regulars

Black holes may be brick walls that bounce information back out

Space

Black holes may be brick walls that bounce information back out

It's another shot in the black hole wars – a Nobel laureate has a counterpoint to Stephen Hawking's new solution to the black hole information paradox

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Space

Supernova simulator recreates elements that form when stars die

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Earth

Modern-day alchemy is putting the periodic table under pressure

Features

Space

Spider galaxies spotted eating gas caught in the cosmic web

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Physics

How long does a proton live?

Features