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Photon trick lets you bend the rules of quantum physics

A basic rule of quantum physics is that knowing too much about an experiment will break quantum interference, but now physicists have discovered a way to bend that rule

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Chilled nanoparticles

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

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

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

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In the quantum world, uncertainty reigns – or is it all in the mind?

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The hunt for dark matter: Solving the universe's big questions

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Bye bye space-time: is it time to free physics from Einstein’s legacy?

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What is space-time? The true origins of the fabric of reality

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What is space-time? The true origins of the fabric of reality

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Quantum X-ray machine takes razor sharp pictures with less radiation

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Quantum weirdness isn't real – we've just got space and time all wrong

A radical new idea erases quantum theory's weird uncertainties – by ripping up all we thought we knew about how the universe works, says physicist Lee Smolin

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A classic quantum theorem may prove there are many parallel universes

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Physicists who came up with supergravity win $3m Breakthrough Prize

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Physicist Jim Al-Khalili on Leeds United, Einstein and quantum biology

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