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The radical idea that space-time remembers could upend cosmology

There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of "memory cells" that record the whole history of the universe. If true, it could explain the nature of dark matter and much more

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Giant atoms 'trapped' for record time at room temperature

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Giant atoms 'trapped' for record time at room temperature

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Microwaves seem to experience imaginary time – and now we know how

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Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades

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Light has been made into a fluid that simulates space-time

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WHA2R6 Frederic and Irene Joliet-Curie in their Paris Laboratory

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Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

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2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

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Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

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Could we build space-time computers that run on gravity?

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Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

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Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

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Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

In this short extract from Kaliane Bradley's sci-fi novel, her protagonist makes a startling discovery about the nature of time

Culture

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Do we have free will? Quantum experiments may soon reveal the answer

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A photon caught in two places at once could destroy the multiverse

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Liquid physics: Inside the lab making black hole analogues on Earth

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Physicists reveal the secret to chopping onions without crying

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