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Doughnut-shaped swirls of laser light can be used to transmit images

Ultra-fast pulses of laser light can be shaped into vortices similar to smoke rings – when chained together, they can carry enough information to transmit a simple image

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Being in two places at once could make a quantum battery charge faster

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Concept of quantum computer

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How Schrödinger's cat could make quantum computers work better

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Black holes scramble information – but may not be the best at it

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The galactic anomalies hinting dark matter is weirder than we thought

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Quantum forces used to automatically assemble tiny device

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A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel quantum reality

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A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel quantum reality

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Single atoms captured morphing into quantum waves in startling image

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

In this terrifying extract from Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, the author lays out what would happen in the first seconds after a nuclear missile hits the Pentagon

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Quantum 'supersolid' matter stirred using magnets

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How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the universe together

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Bizarre crystal made only of electrons revealed in astonishing detail

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Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised the Higgs boson, has died aged 94

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