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Beer frothing

Physics

Does tapping a beer can prevent it foaming over? 51��s found out

A rigorous randomised trial has put to bed the idea that tapping or flicking a can of beer makes bubbles come to the top and prevents the liquid fizzing out

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Tokyo, Japan

Physics

Why information could be our route to the universe’s deepest secrets

Features

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Physics

In the quantum world, uncertainty reigns – or is it all in the mind?

Features

The grid of space-time shows the universe and its galaxies

Space

Dark energy: Understanding the mystery force that rules the universe

Features

Abstract big bang conceptual image

Space

Big bang retold: The weird twists in the story of the universe's birth

Features

Michael de Podesta

Video

How I made the world’s most accurate thermometer – using sound

Video

Jamestown painting

Physics

North America’s first English settlers were unlucky scientists

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overbalanced vase

Physics

The universe tends towards disorder. But how come nobody knows why?

Features

Amazon Web Services

Physics

Amazon enters quantum computing race with cloud quantum processors

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Twisted crystals of paracetamol

Physics

We've discovered a strange twist in the story of how crystals form

The defining feature of a crystal is that it is made from regular, repeating blocks, but a chance discovery in an old German book has turned that view on its head

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Space

Studying the universe’s origins hint that its beginning has no end

Comment

Physics

Exotic super magnets could shake up medicine, cosmology and computing

Features

Physics

What is MRP and can it predict the result of the UK general election?

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Physics

The mystery of the mass of the neutrino could soon be solved

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