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Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards

If anything fell upwards, it would rewrite physics textbooks. Amazingly fiddly experiments to test whether antimatter can do just this are kicking off

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ALPHA experiment at CERN

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Antimatter atom trapped and measured with a laser for first time

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Third-ever natural quasicrystal found in Siberian meteorite

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Third-ever natural quasicrystal found in Siberian meteorite

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Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering

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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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Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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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 may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality

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5 deviant particles that could spark a revolution in physics

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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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Classic quantum experiment could conceal theory of everything

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