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Frank Close: Finding the building blocks of the universe

Over the past century, we have peeled back the layers and uncovered more about the make-up of subatomic particles than ever before, culminating in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson. Frank Close had a front-row seat

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The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over

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300-year-old experiment could become world’s best dark matter detector

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An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is

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We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past

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Weird ‘transdimensional’ state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D

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Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?

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NIST scientists Stephan Schlamminger (left) and Vincent Lee examine the torsion balance they used to measure the gravitational constant, big G

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Gravity’s strength measured more reliably than ever before

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QBox theory may offer glimpse of reality deeper than quantum realm

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Why quantum physics says there鈥檚 a multiverse

Most people think the multiverse is just about "what-if" scenarios 鈥� other versions of you where you took that job in another city or turned left instead of right. But to a physicist, the multiverse isn't a storytelling device; it鈥檚 a mathematical consequence of our best theories of the universe

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This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed

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We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?

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Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny

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The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation

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