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Physics

Metaphysics special: Why is there something rather than nothing?

In part because nothing is not what you think it is. Also don’t forget the multiverse

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Space

Why quantum satellites will make it harder for states to snoop

Insight

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Physics

Quantum trick sees two things happen before and after each other

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China's quantum communications satellite launches

Space

China launches world's first quantum communications satellite

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LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

Physics

LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

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Man peers at dangling circuitry

Technology

Quantum computing race heats up as trapped ions rival microchips

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Artwork showing a cube bearing circuitry and with light beams apparently playing on it

Technology

Error fix for long-lived qubits brings quantum computers nearer

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Physics

Collapse: Has quantum theory's greatest mystery been solved?

Features

What appears to be the same cat entwined in seven different ways with a box

Physics

Seven ways to skin Schrödinger’s cat

Features

Carlo Rovelli

Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

Carlo Rovelli reflects on why time is fundamentally human, and how physics is like music – you don't have to be able to create it to appreciate it

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Technology

Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap

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Physics

Schrödinger's cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half

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Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

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Space

Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

Features

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