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Giving drones barn owl-like tails may make them more efficient flyers
The barn owl鈥檚 tail has a surprisingly important role to play in making the bird more aerodynamic
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Advances in physics may seem abstract at first but tech often follows
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The Large Hadron Collider blips that could herald a new era of physics
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Swimming in a school may help fish hear dolphins鈥� ultrasound clicks
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The Leidenfrost effect: Levitating droplets bounce off each other
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Why is there a cosmic speed limit? It could even be why we’re here
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Stephon Alexander interview: Is the universe a self-learning AI?
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How ants use soil physics to excavate metre-long tunnels
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Using microwave beams could let quantum computers be small but mighty
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States of matter: The unthinkable forms beyond solid, liquid and gas
From time crystals to supersolids, we keep discovering extraordinary new kinds of matter 鈥� now the true challenge is being able to predict what we'll find next
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Emmy Noether
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Is everything predetermined? Why physicists are reviving a taboo idea
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