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Physicists bend atoms in ‘impossible’ experiment

Entire atoms have been put through a classic quantum experiment for the first time and the breakthrough could lead to better detectors for picking up the gravitational waves that ripple across the universe

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Electron diffraction pattern of cubic zirconia

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Quantum entanglement can be endlessly 'embezzled' from quantum fields

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Physicists in 2024 searched the quantum realm for the truth about time

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Jacklyn Gates (Staff Scientist, Heavy Element Group) at the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator, BGS, in Building 88 on Monday, July 8, 2024 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. Experts in the Nuclear Science Division use the 88-Inch Cyclotron to test a new way to make superheavy element 116, livermorium.

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We could discover a new element on the periodic table in 2025

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How to make the biggest splash in a pool, according to science

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Science can be our trusty shield in a time of deepening crises

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Science can be our trusty shield in a time of deepening crises

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The wild physics that could actually be used to build a time machine

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The wild physics that could actually be used to build a time machine

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Ultracold atoms measure gravity with surprising precision

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Ultracold atoms measure gravity with surprising precision

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AI found a new way to create quantum entanglement

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These are the most mind-melting physics discoveries of 2024

We collected some of the wildest physics that New Scientist covered in 2024, findings that are forcing scientists – and us – to rethink reality

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We may be about to solve the greatest riddle of electromagnetism

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We may be about to solve the greatest riddle of electromagnetism

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The universe could vanish at any moment – why hasn’t it?

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The universe could vanish at any moment – why hasn’t it?

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Quantum time crystals could be used to store energy

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Bizarre test shows light can actually cast its own shadow

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