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Earth’s mantle may have hidden plumes venting heat from its core

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Earth’s mantle may have hidden plumes venting heat from its core

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than previously thought

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Giant atoms 'trapped' for record time at room temperature

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Giant atoms 'trapped' for record time at room temperature

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Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades

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Light has been made into a fluid that simulates space-time

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2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

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Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

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IBM says it will build a practical quantum supercomputer by 2029

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2RNRCMD Spacecraft on alien planet, illustration

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The best new science fiction books of June 2025

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Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

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Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

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Quantum computers are on the edge of revealing new particle physics

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Best quantum 'transistor' yet could lead to more accurate computers

Microwaves can control a single quantum bit more precisely than ever before, creating a device similar to a quantum transistor – and potentially making quantum computers more reliable

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Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

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Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

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'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a narrative'

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Qubit breakthrough could make it easier to build quantum computers

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