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Essence of reality: Hunting the universe's most basic ingredient

Drill down past molecules, atoms, and fundamental particles and where do you end up? We might finally be about to find out

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Diamond anvils being used to put pressure on hydrogen sample

Physics

Metallic hydrogen finally made in lab at mind-boggling pressure

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Avogadro project experiment, involving counting atoms in a silicon sphere

Physics

Vacuum transfer advance will help redefine kilogram next year

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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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Mapping the multiverse: How far away is your parallel self?

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Technology

Squeezed light cools tiny drum to coldest temperature ever

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Physicists can't agree on what the quantum world looks like

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Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards

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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

An attempt to make more efficient solar cells shows that green light might be the least useful hue – maybe that's why plants reflect it

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Space

Quantum particles seen distorting light from a neutron star

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Physics

Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality

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Space

Gravity may have chased light in the early universe

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Physics

The world in 2076: The theory of everything is here – we think

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