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Humans

Metaphysics special: Is time an illusion?

We are born, time passes and we die. So time must exist, right? The trouble is, it's tricky to pin down what time actually is

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Space

Why quantum satellites will make it harder for states to snoop

Insight

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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

Space

China launches world's first quantum communications satellite

News

LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

Physics

LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

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Physics

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

Features

A woman at a blackboard covered in equations

Humans

Quick fixes on stereotypes won’t mean more female scientists

News

Ions held in place by a laser

Technology

Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap

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Buckminster Fuller

Technology

How future-proof are the ideas of Buckminster Fuller?

Culture

A tabby cat's face peeking out of a box, green eye

Physics

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

A clever experiment preserves the quantum nature of a set of electromagnetic waves even when they're split apart, a stunt that could help make working quantum computers

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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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Physics

The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton's physics

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Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

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