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Maxwell's demon imagined by physicists really exists inside our cells

Proteins in the cell membranes of most organisms act like the hypothetical “demon” imagined by James Clerk Maxwell in 1867, which was thought to break the laws of physics

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Turtles can accumulate radioactive material in their shells

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Turtles keep a record of nuclear activity in their shells

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Why Isaac Newton's laws still give physicists a lot to think about

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Scientists working on Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment

Physics

Muons are still behaving oddly, which could break particle physics

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Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer

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Oppenheimer: What led to the physicist's downfall?

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Newton’s first law says that objects move at constant speeds until a force affects them

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Newton’s first law appears to break down in the quantum realm

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Who is researching and shaping science is more crucial than ever

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An illustration of a pentaquark

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Exotic pentaquark particle found at CERN's Large Hadron Collider

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Five of the biggest unanswered questions about the proton

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Five of the biggest unanswered questions about the proton

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A computer-generated model of a quasicrystal pattern

Physics

Biggest-yet quasicrystal made by shaking metal beads for a week

A researcher won a bet by performing an experiment a colleague said wouldn't work. The result was the largest quasicrystal ever made

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Quantum randomness of empty space can be controlled with a laser

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Technology

Record-breaking number of qubits entangled in a quantum computer

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Rethinking reality: Is the entire universe a single quantum object?

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Environment

Should Japan dump Fukushima's radioactive water into the ocean?

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