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Graph showing the gravitational wave signal from LIGO

Space

Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

When space-time ripples, what does it ripple into? Find the answers to this and more not-so-dumb questions in our ultimate gravitational-wave primer

Features

Layout of 5-cubit device

Technology

Try your hand at programming IBM's online quantum computer

News

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

Physics

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

News

That's odd: Why is gravity so weak?

Physics

That's odd: Why is gravity so weak?

Features

entanglement

Space

That's odd: Quantum entanglement mangles space and time

Features

Feynman

Technology

Atomic memory could store US Library of Congress in a dust speck

News

Red-tinted mirror suspended along with other objects

Physics

Gravitational wave hunters gear up to detect extreme black holes

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Carroll

Physics

It's mind-blowing what our puny brains can do

Opinion

Cartoon of man in suit holding a gavel, sweating, with his hand over his moutn, with a bottle of milk in front of him

Space

Feedback: Lawmakers’ raw milk celebrations hit a sour note

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Coltrane

Physics

Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics – but only so far

Bananaworld and two other books on theoretical physics show that intuition and the smart metaphors it spawns can never replace serious maths

CultureLab

Life

Feedback: Blue miracle tonic is high on pH, low on evidence

Regulars

Technology

Humans strike back: How Lee Sedol won a game against AlphaGo

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Technology

Puzzle game launched to help program quantum computers

News

Physics

Feedback: Quantum theory and the science of queueing

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