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Physicists discover that 'impossible' particles could actually be real

Every fundamental particle in the universe fits into one of two groups called fermions and bosons, but now it seems there could be other particles out there that break this simple classification and were once thought to be impossible

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How a quantum innovation may quash the idea of the multiverse

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How a quantum innovation may quash the idea of the multiverse

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Electron diffraction pattern of cubic zirconia

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Physicists bend atoms in ‘impossible’ experiment

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Can we use quantum computers to test a radical consciousness theory?

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Can we use quantum computers to test a radical consciousness theory?

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Quantum entanglement can be endlessly 'embezzled' from quantum fields

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Physicists in 2024 searched the quantum realm for the truth about time

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Jacklyn Gates (Staff 51¶¯Âþ, Heavy Element Group) at the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator, BGS, in Building 88 on Monday, July 8, 2024 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. Experts in the Nuclear Science Division use the 88-Inch Cyclotron to test a new way to make superheavy element 116, livermorium.

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We could discover a new element on the periodic table in 2025

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How to make the biggest splash in a pool, according to science

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Science can be our trusty shield in a time of deepening crises

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Science can be our trusty shield in a time of deepening crises

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The wild physics that could actually be used to build a time machine

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The wild physics that could actually be used to build a time machine

From warp drives to quantum tricks, here are five ways that physicists have figured out how to theoretically travel back in time

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Ultracold atoms measure gravity with surprising precision

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AI found a new way to create quantum entanglement

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These are the most mind-melting physics discoveries of 2024

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We may be about to solve the greatest riddle of electromagnetism

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