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Physics

Our sketchy understanding of the big bang is ripe for reimagining

Cosmologists have come to see the early universe as a whole series of transformations, or phase transitions, opening the door to intriguing possibilities for what really happened during the big bang

Leader

A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins

Physics

A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins

Features

Attempts to recreate red matter

Physics

Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts ‘red matter’ study

News

Physics

Quantum batteries could charge better by breaking rules of causality

News

Six laser beams cool and trap atoms before sending them into the interferometer

Physics

World's most sensitive force sensor measures in ‘quectonewtons’

News

Physics

The Great Sphinx of Giza may have been blown into shape by the wind

News

Car mechanic fixing flywheel

Physics

Quantum flywheel could be fashioned from super-sized charged atoms

News

Monika Schleier-Smith

Physics

The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch

Features

Is space-time quantum? Six ways to unpick the fabric of the universe

Physics

Is space-time quantum? Six ways to unpick the fabric of the universe

Features

human sperms

Physics

Sperm caught breaking Newton's third law of motion

Some biological cells swim freely in a way that apparently breaks one of Newton’s laws of motion – but only if they have strange elastic properties

News

Physics

Strange upward lightning shoots out X-rays as it rises to the clouds

News

Physics

Could nuclear weapons testing resume as global tensions rise?

Analysis

Video

Hiroshi Sugimoto: 'I'm borrowing important scientists' experiences'

Video

Physics

Nobel prize for physics goes to trio who sliced up time with light

News