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A bouncing water drop

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Strange water wave can bounce a droplet thousands of times

A single undulating wave can bounce a droplet of water up and down for up to an hour and a half. Researchers made the discovery by accident when studying how wave patterns emerge in water

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Quantum Bullsh*t review: Time to save quantum theory for science

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Quantum Bullsh*t review: Time to save quantum theory for science

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The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue

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The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue

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Part of the setup for creating medium density amorphous ice

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Entirely new type of ice made using extremely cold steel balls

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2F7X3ED Funny playful cat looking in cardboard box. Cat loves to play with carton box

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Why the most important topic in physics could be statistical mechanics

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Abstract red laser beam

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Doughnut-shaped laser used to create an optical fibre out of air

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Flickering flames

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Flames that don't flicker could make engines more efficient

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Replacement of the heart of the CMS experiment - the pixel detector, Part2 Date: 07-03-2017 This week, one of the Large Hadron Collider?s experiments gets a ?heart transplant?. --- Physicists and engineers are replacing the heart of the CMS experiment - the pixel #detector. This will improve CMS?s ability to make precise measurements on aspects of the Standard Model, including the properties of the #HiggsBoson. The #LHC and its experiments are currently preparing to wake up this spring, when the accelerator will begin to collide particles once more at close to the speed of light.

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Collision review: How CERN's stellar secrets became sci-fi gold

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Illustration of a pulse of electrons

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Shortest pulse of electrons ever created lasts just 53 attoseconds

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Neil Turok mirror universe

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Neil Turok on the case for a parallel universe going backwards in time

To explain the cosmos without invoking cosmic inflation, physicist Neil Turok has proposed the existence of a mirror-image universe going backwards in time from the big bang. He tells us why the idea is so compelling

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How AI is shifting the limits of knowledge imposed by complexity

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Physics

How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?

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Physics

Quantum money that uses the mathematics of knots could be unforgeable

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The 50-year quest to find the particle that almost broke physics

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