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Physics confirms the best way to make a playground swing go higher

If you’ve been on a playground swing, you may intuitively know when to lean back to get it going higher – physicists have confirmed that perfectly timed leaning produces the most height

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Graphene shows record-breaking magnetic properties at room temperature

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The sapphire crystal resonator used by ETH researchers to probe the validity of quantum mechanics in objects consisting of trillions of atoms.?(Image: ETH Zurich)

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A macroscopic amount of matter has been put in a quantum superposition

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A super-Earth orbiting its red-dwarf

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Are there planets that are better for life than Earth?

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Come explore the quantum realm – it isn’t as confusing as it seems

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The quantum world: A concise guide to the particles that make reality

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The quantum world: A concise guide to the particles that make reality

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Caption Illustration of the double-slit experiment, showing a plane wave (top left) passing through a screen with two gaps. The gaps act as new wave sources and the wavefronts bend to create two sets of circular waves radiating outwards. These two new waves create an interference pattern as they interact. At the point where a wave peak from one hits a wave peak from another, or a trough hits a trough, they reinforce each other; their magnitudes are summed. This is known as constructive interference. Where a trough hits a peak, they cancel each other out. This is known as destructive interference.

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Light interacts with its past self in twist on double-slit experiment

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2HX73TA Theoretical physics quark and gluon simulation. 3D illustration

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Protons seem to be a different size depending on how you look at them

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Scientists can calculate the shape colliding bubbles will form

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Scientists can calculate the shape colliding bubbles will form

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The ATLAS detector at the LHC

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CERN measurement casts doubt on shocking W boson result

A 2022 measurement of the mass of the W boson threatened to upend particle physics as we know it, but new results from CERN indicate the standard model was right all along

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Ultra-fast random number generator uses quantum fluctuations

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Ultra-thin superconducting ink could be used in quantum computers

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Stephen Hawking’s parting shot is a fresh challenge to cosmologists

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Supersized atoms could help quantum computers link to optical fibres

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