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‘Sound laser’ is the most powerful ever made

A new device uses a reflective cavity, a tiny bead and an electrode to create a laser beam of sound particles ten times more powerful and much narrower than other “phonon lasers”

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Rethinking space and time could let us do away with dark matter

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How one theory ties together everything we know about the universe

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vortices on Jupiter

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Jupiter’s stormy surface replicated in lab

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35-ton-capacity Prototype cryostat for LBNF / DUNE, Anode Plane Assemblies - Construction of the DUNE 35-ton prototype detector

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A tale of two mysteries: ghostly neutrinos and the proton decay puzzle

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Inside the UKs the Joint European Torus

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Future of fusion: How the UK's JET reactor paved the way for ITER

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UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusion project

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How do you recycle a nuclear fusion reactor? We're about to find out

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Tiny magnet could help measure gravity on the quantum scale

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Odd quantum property may let us chill things closer to absolute zero

We can already cool objects with fridges and with lasers. Now there is a third cooling technique involving special quantum states – and it could, in theory, allow us to reach the lowest temperatures yet

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A single atom could drive a piston in a quantum engine

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Illustration of altermagnetism in a chemical compound

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The existence of a new kind of magnetism has been confirmed

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Quantum quirk explains why carbon dioxide causes global warming

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Why string theory has been unfairly maligned - and how to test it

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Why string theory has been unfairly maligned - and how to test it

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