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Google researchers made a time crystal inside a quantum computer

Physics

Google researchers made a time crystal inside a quantum computer

A time crystal is a unique phase of matter that flips between two configurations with no energy input necessary – first proposed in 2012, this type of matter has now been created inside a quantum computer built by Google

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How is gold made? The mysterious cosmic origins of heavy elements

Physics

How is gold made? The mysterious cosmic origins of heavy elements

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Strange 3D-printed shapes test 150-year-old mathematical theory

Physics

Strange 3D-printed shapes test 150-year-old mathematical theory

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flexible ice

Physics

New kind of ice is so bendy it can curl and uncurl without breaking

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Can a new collider reveal the last secrets of the Higgs boson?

Physics

Can a new collider reveal the last secrets of the Higgs boson?

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NASA's most accurate atomic clock will be tested on a mission to Venus

Physics

NASA's most accurate atomic clock will be tested on a mission to Venus

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Steel foil coated with nanowires does backflips out of water

Physics

Steel foil coated with nanowires does backflips out of water

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The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology

Physics

The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology

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Why the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe

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Why the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe

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LIGO mirrors cooled to near absolute zero could probe quantum gravity

Physics

LIGO mirrors cooled to near absolute zero could probe quantum gravity

A set of mirrors used to detect gravitational waves is the largest system ever to be brought close to a frigid quantum state at a temperature of just 77 nanokelvin

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World's most powerful magnet being shipped to ITER fusion reactor

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Merging galaxies throw shade on alternative dark matter theory

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Physics

When time runs backwards: What thermodynamics can tell us about life

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The Meaning of Meaning: Carlo Rovelli finds inspiration in rebellion

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