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Humans

The lost women of Enlightenment science

It was the era that ushered in new ways of thinking. Yet most women weren't expected to have a voice in the debate. Here are some who made themselves heard.

Features

Humans

Family or science: women shouldn't have to choose

Leader

Emilie du Chatelet

Physics

The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton's physics

Features

free will

Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

Features

Layout of 5-cubit device

Technology

Try your hand at programming IBM's online quantum computer

News

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

Physics

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

News

entanglement

Space

That's odd: Quantum entanglement mangles space and time

Features

Feynman

Technology

Atomic memory could store US Library of Congress in a dust speck

News

Carroll

Physics

It's mind-blowing what our puny brains can do

Opinion

Cartoon of man in suit holding a gavel, sweating, with his hand over his moutn, with a bottle of milk in front of him

Space

Feedback: Lawmakers’ raw milk celebrations hit a sour note

Plus grated umbrella handles, string theory of tangled cables, UK police arrest the ban on everything, the national standard peanut butter, and more

Regulars

Physics

Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics – but only so far

CultureLab

Life

Feedback: Blue miracle tonic is high on pH, low on evidence

Regulars

Technology

Puzzle game launched to help program quantum computers

News

Physics

Feedback: Quantum theory and the science of queueing

Regulars