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Plasma tidal wave may tell us if black holes destroy information

Space

Plasma tidal wave may tell us if black holes destroy information

Physicists have long puzzled over whether black holes destroy information or conserve it – now a proposed lab experiment could use a plasma wave to find out

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multiverse artwork

Physics

Mapping the multiverse: How far away is your parallel self?

Features

microscopic metal membrane

Technology

Squeezed light cools tiny drum to coldest temperature ever

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Physics

Physicists can't agree on what the quantum world looks like

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floating man

Physics

Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards

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Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering

Technology

Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering

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Quantum photocells, which look like an arrangement of grey squares on a darker background

Life

Quantum solar cells could explain why plants are green

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Starfield where the neutron stars observed are located

Space

Quantum particles seen distorting light from a neutron star

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Physics

Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality

Culture

Colourful lines of light against a black background skirt around a marble

Space

Gravity may have chased light in the early universe

A new twist on a controversial idea suggests the speed of light varied just after the big bang - and could overturn our standard cosmological wisdom

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Physics

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

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Technology

Quantum computers can talk to each other via a photon translator

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Physics

Smallest sliver of time yet measured sees electrons fleeing atom

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Physics

Classic quantum experiment could conceal theory of everything

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