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Sunlight-trapping device can generate temperatures over 1000°C

A solar energy absorber that uses quartz to trap heat reached 1050°C in tests and could offer a way to decarbonise the production of steel and cement

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Doughnut-shaped swirls of laser light can be used to transmit images

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Being in two places at once could make a quantum battery charge faster

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Fusion reactors could create ingredients for a nuclear weapon in weeks

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Why we are finally within reach of a room-temperature superconductor

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Black holes scramble information – but may not be the best at it

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The galactic anomalies hinting dark matter is weirder than we thought

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Quantum forces used to automatically assemble tiny device

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Nuclear fusion experiment overcomes two key operating hurdles

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A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel quantum reality

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A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel quantum reality

The Large Hadron Collider is testing entanglement in a whole new energy range, probing the meaning of quantum theory – and the possibility that an even stranger reality lies beneath

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Single atoms captured morphing into quantum waves in startling image

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Quantum 'supersolid' matter stirred using magnets

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How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the universe together

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Bizarre crystal made only of electrons revealed in astonishing detail

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