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NA64 experiment at CERN

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Physicists see new hints of a fifth force of nature hidden in helium

A 2016 experiment pointed towards the existence of an undiscovered force of nature. Now researchers say they've seen a second sign

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Above, an artist's impression shows a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters. Exacting observations of three distant quasars now indicate emission of very specific colors of the element iron. These Hubble Space Telescope observations, which bolster recent results from the WMAP mission, indicate that a whole complete cycle of stars was born, created this iron, and died within the first few hundred million years of the universe.

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Massive simulation of the universe shows how galaxies form and die

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The plucky probe that put the big bang theory to the test

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Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink

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Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink

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Manual Override exhibition

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Don’t miss: Art meets science, atoms find love and numbers grow curves

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Polling station

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Tactical voting campaign says maths can solve the UK's political mess

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Einstein killed the aether. Now the idea is back to save relativity

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Google's quantum computer

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Timeline: A brief history of quantum computing from 1980 to 2100

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Exoplanets

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AI could solve baffling three-body problem that stumped Isaac Newton

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Quantum supremacy: What can we do with a quantum computer?

Quantum computers could be used to crack open chemistry's most elusive problems or help to create new medicines

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Quantum supremacy: Will quantum computers break the internet for good?

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Google's qubit rivals: The race to useful quantum computers has begun

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Google hits back at IBM's quantum supremacy challenge

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Mathematician Eugenia Cheng on the abstract wonder of category theory

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