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Metaphysics special: What is reality made of?

Molecules are made of atoms, atoms of particles, and particles are quantum fluctuations. But where do consciousness, dark matter and mathematics fit in?

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Metaphysics special: What is the meaning of life?

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Metaphysics special: Is time an illusion?

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Why quantum satellites will make it harder for states to snoop

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Physics

Quantum trick sees two things happen before and after each other

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China's quantum communications satellite launches

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China launches world's first quantum communications satellite

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LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

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LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

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Collapse: Has quantum theory's greatest mystery been solved?

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Quick fixes on stereotypes won’t mean more female scientists

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Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap

The ions could act as qubits in a quantum simulator to search for new properties of metals, or act as a quantum computer – if we can control them individually

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Physics

Schrödinger's cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half

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Humans

The lost women of Enlightenment science

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Humans

Family or science: women shouldn't have to choose

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The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton's physics

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