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Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality

Just how much of physics is real, and how much of reality is physics? That’s a theme uniting four major new books in the field

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Space

Gravity may have chased light in the early universe

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The inventions of our lifetime, picked by the people who know

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The world in 2076: The theory of everything is here – we think

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Quantum computers can talk to each other via a photon translator

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Smallest sliver of time yet measured sees electrons fleeing atom

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Classic quantum experiment could conceal theory of everything

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Glasses make face recognition tech think you're Milla Jovovich

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Video games become political as US election looms

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Video games become political as US election looms

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Google's neural networks invent their own encryption

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Google's neural networks invent their own encryption

Using machine learning, computers have come up with codes that let them send secret messages to each other – but they’re still a long way off humans

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Dr House goes digital as IBM's Watson diagnoses rare diseases

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Reality guide: Six problems physics can't explain

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Reality guide: The essential laws of quantum physics

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Reality guide: Six radical ideas to change physics

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