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Physicists used 'dark photons' in an effort to rewrite physics in 2025

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change our understanding of the nature of light

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New Scientists build a window into the fourth dimension

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51��s build a window into the fourth dimension

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Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

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How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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New Scientists inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

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Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us

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Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us

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Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr

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Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

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An artwork made my layering many paper cutouts, showing an astronaut near a black hole. Within the black hole are colourful swirls, stars and specks

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Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

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Physicists have worked out a universal law for how objects shatter

Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of each size any brittle object will break into

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We might have just seen the first hints of dark matter

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We may need a fourth law of thermodynamics for living systems

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A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

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An ambitious look at quantum physics is fun – but overdoes it a little

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