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Quantum representation

Physics

Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

Controlling qubits with quantum superpositions allows them to dramatically violate a fundamental limit and encode information for about five times longer during quantum computations

News

How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

Physics

How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

Features

��ýs 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

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

The laws of thermodynamics don't accurately account for the complex processes in living cells – do we need a new one to accurately measure the ways living systems are out of equilibrium?

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Physics

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

Features

Physics

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

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