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Quantum physics

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Quantum physics

Quantum physics underlies how atoms work, and so why chemistry and biology work as they do. You, me and the gatepost – at some level at least, we’re all dancing to the quantum tune.

LHC

Physics

Evidence of new physics could have been under our noses all along

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'We'll die before we find the answer': Crisis at the heart of physics

Physics

'We'll die before we find the answer': Crisis at the heart of physics

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Tara Shears: Why hasn't the LHC found anything new? (…or has it?)

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Tara Shears: Why hasn't the LHC found anything new? (…or has it?)

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The LHC has found the Higgs works perfectly - which is a problem

Physics

The LHC has found the Higgs works perfectly - which is a problem

News

The universe may end in a collision with a bubble of nothingness

Space

The universe may end in a collision with a bubble of nothingness

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LHC

Physics

2018 preview: Last chance for new physics at the LHC for years

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big bang

Space

The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe

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Peter Higgs with Princess Anne

Physics

Peter Higgs on knowledge, immortality and the future of physics

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bubble

Space

The Higgs boson makes the universe stable – just. Coincidence?

If the mass-giving particle were much lighter, the cosmos would quickly collapse in on itself. It’s hard to explain how we’re all still here

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Space

Ghost particles may explain why gravity is so surprisingly weak

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Power, fame and the LHC: A machine at its peak

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Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

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Physics

That's odd: Why is gravity so weak?

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