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What it’s like to run the world’s best dark matter detector

Chamkaur Ghag is on a mission to find the 85 per cent of the universe’s matter that we haven’t yet identified. He details his hopes for the major scientific experiment – and what the future could hold

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Even in our digital world, materials still matter

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Should it be space-time or spacetime – and why does it matter anyway?

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Hottest engine in the world reveals weirdness of microscopic physics

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Physicist Frank Wilczek’s unique insights on the nature of reality

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Physicist Frank Wilczek’s unique insights on the nature of reality

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Nuclear fusion gets a boost from a controversial debunked experiment

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Quantum device detects all units of electricity at once

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It is impossible to build a practical quantum broadcaster

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We have detected a single electron with unprecedented speed

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Extremely cold atoms defy entropy and refuse to heat up

Adding energy to a group of ultracold atoms should make them fly away from each other with many different energies, but quantum effects can counteract this

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Why no one can agree on what quantum physics really means

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Tiny discs can levitate in the upper atmosphere using sunlight alone

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How superheavy chemistry could rearrange the periodic table

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Molecule's tiny quantum jiggle imaged in unprecedented detail

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