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What does quantum theory really tell us about the nature of reality?

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What does quantum theory really tell us about the nature of reality?

For 100 years, quantum theory has painted the subatomic world as strange beyond words. But bold new interpretations and experiments may help us to finally grasp its true meaning

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A timeline of the most important events in quantum mechanics

Physics

A timeline of the most important events in quantum mechanics

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Carlo Rovelli on what we get wrong about the origins of quantum theory

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Carlo Rovelli on what we get wrong about the origins of quantum theory

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California-Cultured-Cell-Chocolate. Shaker process

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Inside the mouth-watering race to master lab-grown chocolate

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Control room

Technology

US military launches initiative to find the best quantum computer

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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Diamond with inclusions

Earth

Inside the hunt for unknown minerals in super-deep diamonds

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Where Schrödinger’s cat came from – and why it’s getting fatter

Schrödinger called his metaphorical cat “quite ridiculous” but the quantum weirdness it represents has become a useful benchmark for the quantum computing industry, finds our quantum columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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Physics

Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

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Technology

Why quantum computers may continue to fail a key test

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Society

What politicians so often get wrong about science

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Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven

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