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How does the sun shine? Here's why we are still a little in the dark

The basics of how fusion works inside stars like the sun is more complicated than it is sometimes portrayed. We shouldn't be surprised that the details are imperfectly understood, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Black hole merger event

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Watch two black holes merge and zoom across galaxy

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Advances in physics may seem abstract at first but tech often follows

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The Large Hadron Collider blips that could herald a new era of physics

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The Large Hadron Collider blips that could herald a new era of physics

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What the thermodynamics of clocks tell us about the mysteries of time

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What the thermodynamics of clocks tell us about the mysteries of time

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Tardigrade

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Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantum entangled

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Split photon

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Photons could be ‘split’ in two to create a weird new form of light

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DeepMind AI helps study strange electrons in chemical reactions

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Planet Earth and Sun. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.

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Mysterious origin of Earth's water may be explained by solar wind

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Soft yet strong gel keeps its shape after being run over by a car

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Soft yet strong gel keeps its shape after being run over by a car

A gel with similar properties to shatterproof glass could have applications in soft robots and prosthetics

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The Leidenfrost effect: Levitating droplets bounce off each other

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Physicists have created a new type of diamond by crushing buckyballs

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Watch droplets bounce off each other as they levitate on a hot plate

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Strange quantum effect predicted 30 years ago has now been observed

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