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Protons inside some types of hydrogen and helium are behaving weirdly

In some types of helium and hydrogen, protons are more than six times as likely to pair up than they are in other atoms – which may mean there is something we don’t understand about the strong nuclear force

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Researchers have worked out the rules for how some things wrinkle

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Best evidence yet that fifth fundamental ‘chameleon’ force isn’t real

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Why rethinking time in quantum mechanics could help us unite physics

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Why rethinking time in quantum mechanics could help us unite physics

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Plasmas could be used to make the world's most powerful laser

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Computer made from liquid crystals would ripple with calculations

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Physicists surprised to discover the proton contains a charm quark

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Quantum computer made of 6 super-sized atoms could imitate the brain

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Ignition confirmed in a nuclear fusion experiment for the first time

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5 mind-bending numbers that could reveal the secrets of the universe

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5 mind-bending numbers that could reveal the secrets of the universe

From the exceedingly big to the unfathomably small, cosmologists are trying to unravel a bizarre set of figures that may reveal what happens inside a black hole, why the Higgs boson is so light and the chances of you having a doppelgänger

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Quantum computers would be better at Wordle than classical ones

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Can we build a quantum clock that is entirely quantum?

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Quantum computer can simulate infinitely many chaotic particles

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Strange pentagon is the best shape for stirring two liquids together

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