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Axions may or may not exist - but we're not just making things up

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Axions may or may not exist - but we're not just making things up

Everything theoretical physicists do is speculative, and likely wrong, except for the things we get right, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Quantum physics

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Quantum physics

Schrödinger’s cat

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Schrödinger’s cat

Uncertainty principle

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Uncertainty principle

A sponge

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Artificial sponges could pull uranium from seawater for nuclear power

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Iranian president Hassan Rouhani at a nuclear power plant

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It may become impossible to tell if Iran starts making a nuclear bomb

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HBO's Chernobyl drama highlights the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

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HBO's Chernobyl drama highlights the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

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Working hypothesis: From slow ramblers to asteroid Ryugu

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Isotopes from weapons and the Chernobyl disaster were found in the Caucasus mountains

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Glaciers contain radioactive isotopes from nuclear tests and accidents

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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

From wormhole passages to white hole escape routes, no one knows for certain what lurks beyond a black hole’s event horizon – so choose your own unsettling fate

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Don't miss: Kubrick's genius, Haida mythology and the power of emotion

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Hot rubble from volcanoes races over land on a carpet of air bubbles

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Einstein quiz: Can you guess which quotes are really his?

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Japan inches towards building a successor to Large Hadron Collider

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