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The international space station

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Ultracold atoms in space will let us stress test Einstein's relativity

Potassium and rubidium atoms aboard the International Space Station have been cooled almost to absolute zero to put a fundamental principle of Einstein’s general theory of relativity to the ultimate test

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Read an extract from Julia by Sandra Newman

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Read an extract from Julia by Sandra Newman

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‘It felt detoxifying’: Retelling 1984 from a female perspective

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‘It felt detoxifying’: Retelling 1984 from a female perspective

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An artist's impression of three merging black holes

Physics

Why the quantum universe is weirder than you think

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Chemistry

Homemade malt is the key to baking the perfect loaf of bread

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Attempts to recreate red matter

Physics

Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts ‘red matter’ study

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Physics

Quantum batteries could charge better by breaking rules of causality

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Postcard from Earth review: Amazing visuals can’t lift Aronofsky movie

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Postcard from Earth review: Amazing visuals can’t lift Aronofsky movie

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The best new science fiction books of November 2023

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The best new science fiction books of November 2023

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Six laser beams cool and trap atoms before sending them into the interferometer

Physics

World's most sensitive force sensor measures in ‘quectonewtons’

The quantum behaviours of extremely cold rubidium atoms can be used to detect forces smaller than a tenth of what is needed to lift a single electron

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The scariest sci-fi horror movies for Halloween, chosen by an expert

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Physics

Quantum flywheel could be fashioned from super-sized charged atoms

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Physics

The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch

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Physics

Is space-time quantum? Six ways to unpick the fabric of the universe

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