Wednesday, 29 October 2025

The quantum experiment that could prove reality doesn't exist

Added: 03.11.2021 12:00 | 306 views | 0 comments

We like to think that things are there even when we aren't looking at them. But that belief might soon be overturned thanks to a new test designed to tell us if quantum weirdness persists in macroscopic objects

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Physicists fail to find mysterious 'sterile neutrino' particles

Added: 27.10.2021 17:00 | 304 views | 0 comments

After decades of looking, physicists are no closer to discovering theorised particles that could help solve ongoing problems in physics

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Can Einstein’s forgotten theory of space solve the cosmology crisis?

Added: 13.10.2021 19:00 | 280 views | 0 comments

Decades ago, Einstein concocted a theory in which space doesn't just curve, but swirls like a cyclone. Now it is making a comeback because it could fix several of the biggest problems in cosmology

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Chemistry Nobel awarded for technique to produce mirror molecules

Added: 06.10.2021 13:10 | 279 views | 0 comments

The 2021 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan for developing catalysts that produce molecules of a desired left or right "handedness"

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Chameleon diamonds change colour when chilled in liquid nitrogen

Added: 05.10.2021 17:23 | 292 views | 0 comments

Diamonds that change colour when heated or kept in the dark have been known since 1866, but now there is a third kind

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Physics Nobel awarded for work on chaotic systems such as the climate

Added: 05.10.2021 13:09 | 288 views | 0 comments

This year's winners of the Nobel prize for physics are Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi

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Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes

Added: 29.09.2021 19:00 | 298 views | 0 comments

Black holes born in the big bang could be the dark matter physicists have sought for decades – if they exist. Now there's an audacious plan to find the scars they would have left as they punched through the moon

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Ada Twist, Scientist review: Brilliant children's TV for the curious

Added: 25.09.2021 7:00 | 410 views | 0 comments

Netflix's adaptation of the bestselling picture book series Ada Twist, Scientist will be loved by children and provoke a smile from even the most jaded parents

Tags: Children , Scientists , Tom Ford

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The black hole paradox that thwarts our understanding of reality

Added: 22.09.2021 14:35 | 348 views | 0 comments

Black holes devour stuff and then shrivel away over billions of years. Explaining what happens to anything that falls in explodes our current theories of physics, says cosmologist Paul Davies

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Stephon Alexander interview: Is the universe a self-learning AI?

Added: 08.09.2021 19:00 | 297 views | 0 comments

To solve the big mysteries in physics, we need to embrace fresh perspectives, says cosmologist Stephon Alexander. Here he explains why intuition is so important – and outlines one of his own wild ideas

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Stingrays’ bulging eyes and mouths make them much faster swimmers

Added: 02.09.2021 17:33 | 268 views | 0 comments

Stingrays have protruding eyes and mouths, which seem like they would make swimming less efficient, but they actually create vortices that let the rays swim faster

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Large Hadron Collider sticks with reels of tape for vast storage needs

Added: 02.09.2021 11:00 | 287 views | 0 comments

The physicists at CERN still rely on tape for the long-term storage of data from the LHC, because it is more reliable and cheaper than hard discs or flash storage

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Quantum nature of gravity may be detectable with gravitational waves

Added: 30.08.2021 16:00 | 297 views | 0 comments

Perhaps the most important problem in physics is how gravity and quantum mechanics fit together, and strange fluctuations in gravitational waves could help us figure it out

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Beyond quantum physics: The search for a more fundamental theory

Added: 25.08.2021 19:00 | 294 views | 0 comments

Quantum theory can’t be the final answer and some theorists are exploring new ways to formulate physical laws – and yet there is no guarantee that any theory can completely describe the universe

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Why it might be impossible to build a practical quantum computer

Added: 25.08.2021 19:00 | 298 views | 0 comments

After “quantum supremacy”, the next step is scaling up and mastering the errors that dog qubits. But some researchers reckon the noise might always to be too high for useful quantum computers

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Why is it so difficult to find a viable quantum theory of gravity?

Added: 25.08.2021 19:00 | 277 views | 0 comments

The way we calculate the properties of subatomic particles with quantum theory goes haywire when it comes to hypothetical particles of gravity, but there may be a clever workaround

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Can quantum effects in the brain explain consciousness?

Added: 25.08.2021 19:00 | 302 views | 0 comments

New research reveals hints of quantum states in tiny proteins called microtubules inside brain cells. If the results stand up, the idea that consciousness is quantum might come in from the cold

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From photosynthesis to navigation, life may exploit quantum effects

Added: 25.08.2021 19:00 | 286 views | 0 comments

There is tantalising evidence to suggest that photosynthesis in some bacteria depends on quantum coherence and birds’ amazing feats of navigation rely on entanglement

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Is quantum theory really as random as it seems?

Added: 25.08.2021 19:00 | 301 views | 0 comments

The maths suggests the reality we get from quantum probabilities is random, but there might be some hidden determinism at play – or perhaps the present can influence the past

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What putting big things in quantum states can tell us about reality

Added: 25.08.2021 19:00 | 287 views | 0 comments

In principle, there should be no limit on how large objects can get and still display quantum behaviour like superpositions. Physicists testing the idea hope to reveal clues about quantum gravity

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