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Big bang retold: The weird twists in the story of the universe's birth

11 December 2019

It certainly wasn’t big, and probably didn’t bang – and the surprises in the conventional story of the universe's origins don’t end there
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In the quantum world, uncertainty reigns – or is it all in the mind?

11 December 2019

Schrödinger's dead-and-alive cat embodies the uncertainty of the quantum world. But whether parallel realities truly exist is a question less of science than belief

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