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Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Physics

Physicists who came up with supergravity win $3m Breakthrough Prize

Supergravity is an idea that could unite general relativity with quantum mechanics, and the three physicists who formulated it have now won a $3 million prize for their work

News

This self-riding bicycle follows you around while you walk

Technology

This self-riding bicycle follows you around while you walk

News

Jim Al-Khalili

Physics

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili on Leeds United, Einstein and quantum biology

Regulars

To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

Physics

To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

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Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

Physics

Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

Features

Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe's radical new fate

Physics

Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe's radical new fate

Features

Dark energy

Definition

Dark energy

metabolite molecules

Technology

Data can now be stored inside the molecules that power our metabolism

News

quantum mechanics

Definition

Quantum mechanics

String theory

Definition

String theory

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything

Technology

Working hypothesis: from Raspberry Pi to abolishing time

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Question

How did the universe begin?

People in Science

Roger Penrose

People in Science

Werner Heisenberg