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Melanie Windridge: Nuclear fusion - the sun's power on Earth

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Melanie Windridge: Nuclear fusion - the sun's power on Earth

Limitless clean energy from fusion has long been a dream. Now it could finally come true, says plasma physicist Melanie Windridge

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Women in physics: Why there's a problem and how we can solve it

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People watch the discovery announcement

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LIGO to publish new paper in wake of New Scientist investigation

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Hands play paper and scissors

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Rock, paper, scissors with 100 people could last a quadrillion rounds

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A zap from a laser could make bigger quantum computers possible

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A zap from a laser could make bigger quantum computers possible

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The LIGO collaboration must respond to gravitational wave criticism

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The kilogram is dead. Long live the kilogram

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The kilogram is dead. Long live the kilogram

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Stephen Fairhurst: Gravitational wave hunting

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Stephen Fairhurst: Gravitational wave hunting

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LIGO's detectors

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Exclusive: Grave doubts over LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves

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Strange lines form a pattern

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There is a weird new state of matter that can't be stirred or pushed

Rigid light is a strange new state of matter. It’s somewhere between a solid and a superfluid, and can’t be stirred, rotated, or even pushed

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The Higgs boson may have stopped the early universe from collapsing

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Ivette Fuentes: How to build a quantum teleporter

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Nobel laureates sign letter expressing Brexit concerns

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Dawns, Mine, Crystal review – art with a crafty message for science

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