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Stephen Hawking’s parting shot is a fresh challenge to cosmologists

The physicist’s final theorem, about why the universe seems fine-tuned for life, contains some provocative predictions. Will they be as fruitful as his insights into black holes?

Leader

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Supersized atoms could help quantum computers link to optical fibres

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Stephen Hawking with Thomas Hertog, in Hawking's office

Physics

Stephen Hawking's final theorem turns time and causality inside out

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Red matter superconductor

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'Red matter' superconductor may not be a wonder material after all

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80,000 mouse brain cells used to build a living computer

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80,000 mouse brain cells used to build a living computer

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Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger's cat

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Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger's cat

Culture

Jonathan oppenheim

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The physicist betting that space-time isn't quantum after all

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NGC 1858 is an open star cluster in the northwest region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way that has an abundance of star-forming regions

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How are the atoms that form us forged across the universe?

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A diamond anvil

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'Red matter' superconductor could transform electronics – if it works

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Antineutrinos collide with protons inside the detector which creates positrons that move through water followed by a blue glow.

Physics

Antimatter neutrinos detected from a nuclear reactor 240 km away

A water-based detector has been used to spot antineutrinos from nuclear reactions hundreds of kilometres away. It could be used to monitor distant nuclear activities

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Physics

Quantum computers that use 'cat qubits' may make fewer errors

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Hidden corridor in Egypt’s Great Pyramid mapped with cosmic rays

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Physics

Why uncertainty is part of science - especially quantum mechanics

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This new version of quantum theory is even stranger than the original

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