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Women in physics: Why there's a problem and how we can solve it

Women are still wildly under-represented in physics – but it doesn't have to be like that. Our special report looks at the steps we can take to improve things

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LIGO to publish new paper in wake of 51�� investigation

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Rock, paper, scissors with 100 people could last a quadrillion rounds

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A zap from a laser could make bigger quantum computers possible

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A zap from a laser could make bigger quantum computers possible

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The LIGO collaboration must respond to gravitational wave criticism

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The kilogram is dead. Long live the kilogram

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The kilogram is dead. Long live the kilogram

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Stephen Fairhurst: Gravitational wave hunting

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Stephen Fairhurst: Gravitational wave hunting

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LIGO's detectors

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Exclusive: Grave doubts over LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves

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Strange lines form a pattern

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There is a weird new state of matter that can't be stirred or pushed

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The Higgs boson may have stopped the early universe from collapsing

Moments after the big bang, calculations show the universe could have collapsed into black holes. The reason it didn’t could be explained by the Higgs boson

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Ivette Fuentes: How to build a quantum teleporter

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Nobel laureates sign letter expressing Brexit concerns

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Dawns, Mine, Crystal review – art with a crafty message for science

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Sean Carroll: The many worlds of quantum mechanics

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