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Scientists inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

Physics

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run in a world powered purely by imagination

Features

Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us

Physics

Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us

Features

Physics

Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr

News

Physics

Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

Comment

An artwork made my layering many paper cutouts, showing an astronaut near a black hole. Within the black hole are colourful swirls, stars and specks

Physics

Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

Features

Physics

Physicists have worked out a universal law for how objects shatter

News

Physics

We might have just seen the first hints of dark matter

News

Physics

We may need a fourth law of thermodynamics for living systems

News

A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

Physics

A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

Features

Brian and Beatie - by Cecily Eno

Physics

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe discuss their new spacebound album, Liminal

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe's album Liminal is being transmitted into space by Nobel laureate Robert Wilson. They give Chelsea Whyte the lowdown

Culture

Physics

An ambitious look at quantum physics is fun – but overdoes it a little

Culture

Physics

Physics of light and magnetism rewritten after almost two centuries

News

Physics

The forgotten women of quantum physics

Comment

Video

Quantum numbers are the true essence of reality, says Vlatko Vedral

Video