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Physics confirms the best way to make a playground swing go higher

If you’ve been on a playground swing, you may intuitively know when to lean back to get it going higher – physicists have confirmed that perfectly timed leaning produces the most height

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Qunnect's entanglement source

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An unhackable quantum internet is being built in New York City

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Come explore the quantum realm – it isn’t as confusing as it seems

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The quantum world: A concise guide to the particles that make reality

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The quantum world: A concise guide to the particles that make reality

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Caption Illustration of the double-slit experiment, showing a plane wave (top left) passing through a screen with two gaps. The gaps act as new wave sources and the wavefronts bend to create two sets of circular waves radiating outwards. These two new waves create an interference pattern as they interact. At the point where a wave peak from one hits a wave peak from another, or a trough hits a trough, they reinforce each other; their magnitudes are summed. This is known as constructive interference. Where a trough hits a peak, they cancel each other out. This is known as destructive interference.

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Light interacts with its past self in twist on double-slit experiment

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2HX73TA Theoretical physics quark and gluon simulation. 3D illustration

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Protons seem to be a different size depending on how you look at them

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Scientists can calculate the shape colliding bubbles will form

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Scientists can calculate the shape colliding bubbles will form

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The ATLAS detector at the LHC

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CERN measurement casts doubt on shocking W boson result

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Supersized atoms could help quantum computers link to optical fibres

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Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger's cat

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Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger's cat

This physics-inspired circus performance enthralled attendees of the American Physical Society’s March Meeting, but a casual observer may have missed some of the scientific concepts that performers enacted

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Antimatter neutrinos detected from a nuclear reactor 240 km away

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Quantum computers that use 'cat qubits' may make fewer errors

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Hidden corridor in Egypt’s Great Pyramid mapped with cosmic rays

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Why uncertainty is part of science - especially quantum mechanics

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