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Could the world's mightiest computers be too complicated to use?

China, Japan and the US are racing to build the first exascale computer – but devising programmes clever enough to run on them is a different story

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Very Large Telescope

Physics

There's a glitch at the edge of the universe that could remake physics

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It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

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It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

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Illustrations of Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland

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Donna Strickland is the third woman ever to win a physics Nobel Prize

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Jess Wade giving a lecture

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It is 2018, so why are we still debating whether women can do physics?

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NASA’s ANITA detector

Physics

Weird signals in Antarctica could be hints of a new realm of physics

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A coin toss

Physics

Quantum mechanics may contradict itself when applied to big objects

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Large Hadron Collider

Physics

The Higgs hunter has just turned 10. Why is nobody celebrating?

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After the cat: Celebrating Schrödinger’s 75-year influence on biology

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After the cat: Celebrating Schrödinger’s 75-year influence on biology

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Antimatter seen in two places at once thanks to quantum experiment

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Antimatter seen in two places at once thanks to quantum experiment

The double-slit experiment is a classic demonstration that all particles of light and matter are also waves - and now it’s been done with antimatter particles

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Physics

CERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons

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World’s cleanest drop of water reveals why nothing is ever truly clean

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Physics

This one particle could solve five mega-mysteries of physics

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Physics

We have finally figured out how to snap spaghetti into two pieces

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