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illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity, a key component of SLAC's LCLS-II X-ray laser

Physics

Inside world's ultimate X-ray machine before it becomes more powerful

The Linac Coherent Light Source in California has been firing record-breaking X-ray pulses for years, but now it’s due for a shutdown and an upgrade. When it is turned back on, it will be even more powerful

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Quantum computing

Technology

'Spectacular' progress has been made towards useful quantum computers

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Life

A ghostly glow was seen emanating from living things in 2025

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Technology

Quantum computers turned out to be more useful than expected in 2025

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Scientists build a window into the fourth dimension

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Scientists build a window into the fourth dimension

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Quantum representation

Physics

Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

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Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

Mind

Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

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How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

Physics

How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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Scientists inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

Physics

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers

Mathematics

We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers

From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer

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Physics

Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr

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Physics

Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

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Physics

Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

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Physics

Physicists have worked out a universal law for how objects shatter

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