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when lasers learn how to turn a corner…

A new experiment unlocks quantum behaviors that can make laser beams more cohesive and negotiate more complicated trajectories.
when lasers learn how to turn a corner…

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why absolute zero isn't theoretically absolute

Amazingly, you can cool something to below absolute zero. And what happens when you do is really, really weird...
why absolute zero isn't theoretically absolute

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the bizaarre, yet possible physics of r'lyeh

Why is R'yleh, the fictional underwater city where Cthulhu lies dead-dreaming, appear so insanely unreal, literally? One physicist thinks he knows the answer.
the bizaarre, yet possible physics of r'lyeh

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is it cold fusion or just a scam, revisited

Andrea Rossi is still keeping up his cold fusion scam and taking a community of fervent believers for a ride in the process.
is it cold fusion or just a scam, revisited

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is this the real life, is this just a complex cosmological simulation?

A new experiment is attempting to find out whether we may be living in some sort of simulation.
is this the real life, is this just a complex cosmological simulation?

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earth is growing, proclaims amateur geologist

Apparently middle aged planets also gain mass around their equators according to an amateur geologist very passionate about his epiphany.
earth is growing, proclaims amateur geologist

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why a missing higgs boson won't derail physics

It would be amazing for the LHC to find the Higgs boson. It would be even more interesting if it doesn't.
why a missing higgs boson won't derail physics

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so what's the fine for breaking relativity?

An experiment has detected neutrinos moving slightly faster than the speed of light and the scientists can't believe their results.
so what's the fine for breaking relativity?

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is it viable cold fusion or an imminent scam?

Two Italians claim they cracked cold fusion and are ready to build a small power plant for paying customers. Their proof, however, points to this being an obvious scam.
is it viable cold fusion or an imminent scam?

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so how would you say hello in your universe?

Biocentrism is the hottest new "quantum" woo that's literally all about you...
so how would you say hello in your universe?

# space    

repent, for the end of time is relatively near!

According to four physicist time will keep going for billions of years until one day it will just... stop.
repent, for the end of time is relatively near!

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answers in genesis tackles logic, fails miserably

Answers In Genesis tries to debate the divine origins of logic as if it was a law of physics with the most illogical drivel they could muster.
answers in genesis tackles logic, fails miserably

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looking for gods in the quantum mesh

John Polkinghorne managed to create a version of God that's both truly omnipresent and omniscient, and almost entirely powerless and irrelevant.
looking for gods in the quantum mesh

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making quark-gluon soup with an atom smasher

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider may have reached temperatures at which matter itself begins to melt, and found a peek at new insights into the future of computing.
making quark-gluon soup with an atom smasher

# health    

when quacks kidnap einstein's ghost…

Alt med practitioners decided that the one of world's simplest and most famous formulas is their friend because they clearly don't understand it.
when quacks kidnap einstein's ghost…

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