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quantum science

Diamond anvils being used to put pressure on hydrogen sample

Physics

Metallic hydrogen finally made in lab at mind-boggling pressure

Diamonds, low temperatures and pressures way above what's found at Earth's centre were used to create a form of hydrogen foreseen back in the 1930s

News

Avogadro project experiment, involving counting atoms in a silicon sphere

Physics

Vacuum transfer advance will help redefine kilogram next year

News

Plasma tidal wave may tell us if black holes destroy information

Space

Plasma tidal wave may tell us if black holes destroy information

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Mary Jackson

Space

When computers were human: The black women behind NASA’s success

Features

Katherine Johnson

Space

Katherine Johnson: The brilliant woman who got the US into space

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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

News

quantum physics

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

Features

caribou

Life

Reindeer riddle: How do you tell caribou apart?

Studying indigenous names for the animals may help us clear up a decades-long mix-up over caribou classification and reverse population decline

Features

Technology

Don’t believe the Skype: We never wanted to video call people

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Humans

Holiday brain-off round 4: Demonstrate the wisdom of the ages

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Life

Tree of life: How figs built the world and will help save it

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Technology

Medieval wax seals are giving up fresh historical secrets

Features

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