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Physics

Your decision-making ability is a superpower physics can't explain

In a universe that unthinkingly follows the rules, human agency is an anomaly. Can physics ever make sense of our power to change the physical world at will?

Features

Double-slit experiment

Physics

Photon trick lets you bend the rules of quantum physics

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Chilled nanoparticles

Physics

This tiny glass bead has been quantum chilled to near absolute zero

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Physics

What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality

Features

Chess pieces

Physics

What is reality? Why we still don't understand the world's true nature

Features

Coffee machine

Physics

Maths says you need coarser coffee grounds to make a perfect espresso

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metal bonds

Physics

Watch the first ever video of a chemical bond breaking and forming

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Physics

In the quantum realm, cause doesn’t necessarily come before effect

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IceCube facility

Physics

Strange particles found in Antarctica cannot be explained by physics

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Mathematical universe

Physics

Trippy maths program could help figure out the shape of the universe

Mathematicians have come up with a way to explore strange 3D spaces that could be related to the shape of the universe

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Physics

It would take Iran more than 4 months to develop nuclear weapons

Analysis

Technology

Metallic hydrogen would be the ultimate fuel - if we can make it

Features

Physics

Are dark matter and dark energy related in anything apart from name?

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Physics

Tiny graphene sheets can start or stop ice crystals growing in water

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