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Ghostly particles might just break our understanding of the universe

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the standard model of particle physics

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Physicists stirred up controversy with scientific cooking tips in 2025

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A controversial experiment threatened to kill the multiverse in 2025

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illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity, a key component of SLAC's LCLS-II X-ray laser

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Inside world's ultimate X-ray machine before it becomes more powerful

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Physicists used 'dark photons' in an effort to rewrite physics in 2025

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Scientists build a window into the fourth dimension

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Scientists build a window into the fourth dimension

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Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

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How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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Scientists inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

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Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us

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Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some tantalising clues – and devised an experiment that might reveal the truth

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Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr

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Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

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Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

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Physicists have worked out a universal law for how objects shatter

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