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See the latest physics news and expert analysis on dark matter, the multiverse, theoretical and particle physics, quantum theory, and more from the world of physics.

Garden hose

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Garden hoses help explain why mammals can maintain stiff erections

Physicists looking for something to do during lockdown turned to studying garden hoses, and have used their findings to explain how a rare feature of mammalian penises helps them maintain stiff erections

L谩szl贸 Lov谩sz (left) and Avi Wigderson (right)

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Mathematicians who unravelled computational complexity win Abel prize

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Physicists have measured gravity on the smallest scale ever

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Quantum weirdness isn鈥檛 weird 鈥� if we accept objects don鈥檛 exist

satellites

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Photonic laser thruster could power spacecraft from Earth

egg

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X-raying eggs while they cook reveals how egg white becomes solid

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We may have to rewrite our understanding of gravity

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Did time flow in two directions from the big bang, making two futures?

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A warp drive that doesn’t break the laws of physics is possible

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Physicists finally worked out why ice is slippery after 150 years

We may finally have an answer to the question of why ice is slippery after 150 years: a layer of dancing molecules on its surface

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Mathematician makes breakthrough on 100-year-old problem about knots

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Why the universe can be described by the equations of fluids

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Physicists finally figured out why food sticks to a frying pan

Dan Hooper: What happened at the big bang?