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Sixty years ago the world’s largest particle accelerator switched on

When CERN’s Proton Synchrotron switched on 60 years ago it ushered in a new era for particle physics

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Don't miss: Emotional veg, antique innovations and spooky maths

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Your decision-making ability is a superpower physics can't explain

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Double-slit experiment

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Photon trick lets you bend the rules of quantum physics

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This tiny glass bead has been quantum chilled to near absolute zero

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What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality

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What is reality? Why we still don't understand the world's true nature

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Maths says you need coarser coffee grounds to make a perfect espresso

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Watch the first ever video of a chemical bond breaking and forming

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In the quantum realm, cause doesn’t necessarily come before effect

In everyday life, causes always precede effects. But new experiments suggests that no such restriction applies in the quantum world

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Strange particles found in Antarctica cannot be explained by physics

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Trippy maths program could help figure out the shape of the universe

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It would take Iran more than 4 months to develop nuclear weapons

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Metallic hydrogen would be the ultimate fuel - if we can make it

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