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The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter

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The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter

Physicists are coming to realise that hypothetical particles called axions could explain not only dark matter, but dark energy too, and more besides. Now there is fresh impetus to detect them

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Illustration of an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray hitting Earth

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A mysterious, incredibly energetic cosmic ray has smashed into Earth

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Lasers fired at crystals could uncover quantum nature of the vacuum

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The international space station

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Ultracold atoms in space will let us stress test Einstein's relativity

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An artist's impression of three merging black holes

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Why the quantum universe is weirder than you think

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Quantum batteries could charge better by breaking rules of causality

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Six laser beams cool and trap atoms before sending them into the interferometer

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World's most sensitive force sensor measures in ‘quectonewtons’

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Car mechanic fixing flywheel

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Quantum flywheel could be fashioned from super-sized charged atoms

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Monika Schleier-Smith

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The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch

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The Santis Peak

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Strange upward lightning shoots out X-rays as it rises to the clouds

Tall buildings made from electrically conductive materials can send lightning bolts up into the heavens during a thunderstorm, and they generate X-rays at the same time

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Her Space, Her Time review: Trailblazing women astronomers

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Large Hadron Collider turned into world's biggest quantum experiment

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Force that holds atoms together measured more precisely than ever

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Adding nanofridges to quantum computers could make them run faster

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