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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Susan Montoya Bryan/AP/Shutterstock (10714089d) Cube of uranium is displayed, at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, N.M. The "Dark Cube" was part of Adolf Hilter's last attempt at a nuclear reactor and represented a threat that helped to propel the United States' secret Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Thursday marked the 75th anniversary of the world's first atomic detonation Atomic Anniversary, Albuquerque, United States - 15 Jul 2020

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Investigation of Nazi uranium could help stop modern nuclear smuggling

Cubes of uranium salvaged from Nazi Germany's atomic bomb programme during the second world war are being analysed to confirm their origin, and the method could help law enforcement investigate illegal trafficking of nuclear material

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This artist?s rendering shows a NIF target pellet inside a hohlraum capsule with laser beams entering through openings on either end. The beams compress and heat the target to the necessary conditions for nuclear fusion to occur. Ignition experiments on NIF are the result of more than 50 years of inertial confinement fusion research and development, opening the door to exploration of previously inaccessible physical regimes

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Huge lasers make conditions at the cusp of ignition for nuclear fusion

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Q1: Photograph of the silicon quantum circuit being connected to a circuit board in preparation for measurement. (credit: Serwan Asaad)

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Using microwave beams could let quantum computers be small but mighty

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States of matter: The unthinkable forms beyond solid, liquid and gas

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Google researchers made a time crystal inside a quantum computer

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How is gold made? The mysterious cosmic origins of heavy elements

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Strange 3D-printed shapes test 150-year-old mathematical theory

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flexible ice

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New kind of ice is so bendy it can curl and uncurl without breaking

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Can a new collider reveal the last secrets of the Higgs boson?

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NASA’s most accurate atomic clock will be tested on a mission to Venus

A toaster-sized atomic clock in orbit around Earth is far more accurate than existing space clocks. It will be tested on a mission to Venus to see if it will aid autonomous spacecraft navigation on deep-space missions

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Steel foil coated with nanowires does backflips out of water

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Why the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe

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The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology

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LIGO mirrors cooled to near absolute zero could probe quantum gravity

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