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The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China

How do you portray momentum in space accurately? Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein takes a look at the origins of our understanding of motion, which runs from Isaac Newton back to the Zhou dynasty a millennia ago

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Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K

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Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time

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Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton

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Tower of device made of copper discs connected by glowing wires and vacuum tubes. Illustration of the concept of quantum computer and computing

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We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption

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Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time

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Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time

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How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end

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Cracked blue bowl with equations, stars, planets and galaxies decorating its exterior. It is cracked but golden glue sticks it back together.

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We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together

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The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough machine may be built much sooner than previously thought

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A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries

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How Anthony Leggett pushed the boundaries of quantum physics

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Computer finds flaw in major physics paper for first time

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Temperature gets a new definition using a quantum device

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