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UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in her laboratory in 1912, the year after she received here second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science

Marie Curie redefined the role of women in science by training a generation of 鈥渓ab daughters鈥� to have stellar careers, shows Dava Sobel's detailed and intimate new biography, The Elements of Marie Curie

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Solving Stephen Hawking鈥檚 black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

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The laws of physics appear to follow a mysterious mathematical pattern

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Indestructible quantum rifts can exist in two places at once

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Quantum theory is challenging long-standing ideas about entropy

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Tiniest ‘ruler’ ever measures distances as small as an atom’s width

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This test could reveal whether gravity is subject to quantum weirdness

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Certain quantum systems may be able to defy entropy’s effects forever

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The physicist who argues that there are no objective laws of physics

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Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered

Particles of light can spend "negative time" passing through a cloud of extremely cold atoms 鈥� without breaking the laws of physics

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We physicists could learn a lot by stepping beyond our specialisms

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Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

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Why the words we use in physics obscure the true nature of reality

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Our reality seems to be compatible with a quantum multiverse