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Quantum forces used to automatically assemble tiny device

The very weak forces of attraction caused by the Casimir effect can now be used to manipulate microscopic gold flakes and turn them into a light-trapping tool

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A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel quantum reality

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A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel quantum reality

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Single atoms captured morphing into quantum waves in startling image

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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Quantum 'supersolid' matter stirred using magnets

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How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the universe together

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Bizarre crystal made only of electrons revealed in astonishing detail

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Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised the Higgs boson, has died aged 94

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Physicists created an imaginary magnetic field in real life

Researchers have used quantum light to create a magnetic field with a strength that is measured in imaginary numbers

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Physicists have worked out how to melt any material

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We've glimpsed something that behaves like a particle of gravity

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Most accurate clock ever can tick for 40 billion years without error

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How to wrap your head around the most mind-bending theories of reality

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