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X-ray laser fires most powerful pulse ever recorded
The Linac Coherent Light Source in California fired an X-ray pulse that lasted only a few hundred billionths of a billionth of a second but carried nearly a terawatt of power
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Physicists are grappling with their own reproducibility crisis
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Doughnut-shaped swirls of laser light can be used to transmit images
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Quantum forces used to automatically assemble tiny device
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Physicists created an imaginary magnetic field in real life
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Physicists have worked out how to melt any material
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How to wrap your head around the most mind-bending theories of reality
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鈥楻unning of the bulls鈥� festival crowds move like charged particles
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How one theory ties together everything we know about the universe
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Mathematics
Why science relies too much on mathematics
Mathematics is at the heart of modern science but we shouldn鈥檛 forget other ways to reason, says author and researcher Roland Ennos
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Space
In a new era of astronomy, we’re feeling for vibrations in space-time
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Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything
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Heating and cooling seem to be fundamentally different, not opposites
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Technology
First ‘thermodynamic computer’ uses random noise to calculate
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