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Physics

The massive problem of trying to fully explain what mass actually is

I can take it as a given that people have an intuition for the meaning of mass, but traditional explanations can feel unsatisfactory. Even the standard model doesn't give us all the answers, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Technology

Microsoft says its weird new particle could improve quantum computers

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Technology

IBM quantum computer beat a supercomputer in a head-to-head test

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Couples are less likely to physically collide with others than friends

Technology

Couples collide with fewer people on walks than pairs of friends do

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Snakes are quite quantum, mathematically speaking

Life

Wiggly worms and quantum objects follow surprisingly similar equations

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Extremely cold drop of helium can be levitated forever

Physics

Extremely cold drop of helium can be levitated forever

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The are thosands of small pieces of junk orbiting Earth (as well as thousands of satellites)

Physics

Quantum sensors could detect space debris from its gravitational pull

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Sunlight coming out of the optical fibre

Physics

Sunlight could cool an atom to its coldest possible temperature

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Space

Lab imitations of the unobservable cosmos can be genuinely insightful

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Milky Way. Night sky and silhouette of a standing man

Space

Questions I dread: How did the universe begin, and what is space-time?

As a theoretical cosmologist, you would think I'd welcome the chance to answer these questions - but it isn't clear this is an inquiry that physics can answer, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Physics

Fundamental law of physics demonstrated using quantum objects

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Physics

Why symmetry is so fundamental to our understanding of the universe

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Physics

How we could discover quantum gravity without rebuilding space-time

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Physics

Why virtual particles don’t exist but do explain reality – for now

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