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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

A cosmic ray dubbed Amaterasu is the second most powerful one we have ever seen, beaten only by the "Oh-My-God particle". Both have baffled astronomers and defy explanation

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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

Physics

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

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2G6HE5R ANNIE JUMP CANNON (1863-1941) American astronomer and suffragist. about 1920

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Her Space, Her Time review: Trailblazing women astronomers

A disdain for misogyny past and present shines through in Shohini Ghose's rich history of women's underappreciated contributions to astronomy and physics

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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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Technology

Adding nanofridges to quantum computers could make them run faster

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Quantum engine could power devices with an ultracold atom cloud

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