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Physicists force atoms into state of quantum ‘hyper-entanglement’ using tweezers made of laser light

Using optical tweezers composed of laser light, researchers have developed a novel way to manipulate individual atoms and create a…

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Physicists capture ‘second sound’ for the first time — after nearly 100 years of searching

Scientists have captured direct images of heat behaving like sound — an elusive phenomenon called ‘second sound’ — for the…

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Physicists are waging a cosmic battle over the nature of dark energy

The Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona, is home to DESI KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld Is dark energy changing, or is…

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Physicists may be on their way to a ‘theory of everything’ after reenvisioning Einstein’s most famous theory

Physicists have developed a novel approach to solving one of the most persistent problems in theoretical physics: uniting gravity with…

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Physicists reveal the secret to chopping onions without crying

Cutting onions can be a tearful experience Foster.r/Getty Images If you find yourself crying when chopping onions, physicists have found…

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Large Hadron Collider Physicists Turn Lead into Gold—For a Fraction of a Second

Physicists Turn Lead into Gold—For a Fraction of a Second Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions…

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Physicists create groundbreaking atomic clock that’s off by less than 1 second every 100 million years

Scientists have developed one of the most precise atomic clocks ever built, and they plan to use it as a…

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In a first, physicists spot elusive ‘free-range’ atoms — confirming a century-old theory about quantum mechanics

For the first time, scientists have observed solo atoms floating freely and interacting in space. The discovery helps to confirm…

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Why physicists keep trying to get rid of space-time entirely

Space-time is considered the fabric of physical reality Science Photo Library/Alamy The first time a physicist told me they wanted…

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Physicists create ‘black hole bomb’ for first time on Earth, validating decades-old theory

Researchers have created a “black hole bomb” in the lab for the first time. In 1972, physicists William Press and…

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