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See the latest physics news and expert analysis on dark matter, the multiverse, theoretical and particle physics, quantum theory, and more from the world of physics.

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Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

Physicists finally know whether black holes destroy the information contained in infalling matter. The problem is that the answer hasn’t lit the way to a new understanding of space-time

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The laws of physics appear to follow a mysterious mathematical pattern

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Indestructible quantum rifts can exist in two places at once

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Quantum theory is challenging long-standing ideas about entropy

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Tiniest ‘ruler’ ever measures distances as small as an atom’s width

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This test could reveal whether gravity is subject to quantum weirdness

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Certain quantum systems may be able to defy entropy’s effects forever

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The physicist who argues that there are no objective laws of physics

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Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered

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We physicists could learn a lot by stepping beyond our specialisms

A recent atomic physics workshop was outside my dark matter comfort zone, but learning about science beyond my usual boundaries was invigorating, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

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Why the words we use in physics obscure the true nature of reality

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Our reality seems to be compatible with a quantum multiverse

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Hopes for new physics dashed by ordinary-looking W bosons at CERN

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