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The camera

Physics

New kind of camera can image mini-whirlpools in quantum liquids

Researchers have built a camera-like device for understanding how vortices form in quantum liquids, where atoms pair up and start to behave like overlapping waves

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Stem cells

Physics

Stem cells levitated using sound form spherical clumps

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Artificial neuron concept

Physics

AI solves complex physics problems by looking for signs of symmetry

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Super-sized atoms can be used as a receiver to stream live video

Physics

Super-sized atoms can be used as a receiver to stream live video

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A pancake-shaped supersolid

Physics

Strange state of matter made into a pancake-shape for first time

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Have we been measuring the expansion of the universe wrong all along?

Physics

Have we been measuring the expansion of the universe wrong all along?

Features

Star

Physics

A tiny graphene device could detect neutrinos from the big bang

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Illustration of a computer motherboard with microchips, transistors and semiconductors.

Physics

Maxwell's demon experiment could be made real without breaking physics

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A specially sculpted laser beam created this photorealistic image of a cat From the researcher: The whole image in the camera (CCD), showing the edges of the (Gaussian) beam, where the dark rectangle background (around the cat) shows the edges of the target image we used to imprint the phase. It is easy to notice it, because it is slightly misaligned with the CCD pixels.

Physics

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs made a laser beam shaped like a photorealistic cat

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Han dynasty magic mirror

Physics

Secret images hidden in mirrors and windows using liquid crystals

A technique borrowed from ancient "magic mirrors" uses liquid crystals to conceal images from all but the right kind of light

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Physics

Strange new Higgs particles could explain shocking W boson result

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Physics

Quantum encryption could stop scammers from faking their locations

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Physics

First one-way superconductor could slash energy used by computers

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Mind

Quantum experiments add weight to a fringe theory of consciousness

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