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Scientists make first quantum video call. It's supposedly unhackable

Sharing sensitive data will never be the same.

Musk's argument that we live in a simulation doesn't hold water, quantum physicists say

The blue pill or the red pill?

Physics Nobel Prize: Gravitational Wave researchers honored by prestigious award

They opened a new door in our understanding of the universe and definitely deserve all the honors.

Ancient cosmic collissions between small bodies could explain quirk of early solar system formation

Early Earth could have lost as much as 40% of its mass during collisional growth.

Physicists report new, solid observation of gravitational waves

It's pretty much official now: we have gravitational waves.

Scientists just turned light-based information into readable soundwaves

It's like storing lightning in thunder.

The simple reason why climate change is affecting hurricanes

It's pretty simple math.

How northern lights and stranded whales might strangely be connected

The northern lights might be a brilliant spectacle for some, but they spelled doom for some unfortunate sperm whales.

Researchers find tantalizing evidence of mid-sized black hole in the Milky Way

If confirmed, this could indicate a remarkable progress in modern physics.

World's biggest X-ray laser comes online in the Germany city of Hamburg

We will be able to see the very fabric of the world make and break.

The LeverAxe uses physics to finally bring splitting wood to the 21st century

It took a while, but the axe's 8,000-year-old design finally got a much needed revamp.

The sun's core rotates four times faster than its surface

Scientists think this is a left over effect since the sun formed billions of years ago. In time, solar wind likely slowed the rotation of the outer sun.

Water-repelling surface makes dew droplets so small, they're practically invisible

The breakthrough could help cool the hotspots of high-performance electronics.

Bubble physics can explain why dialects appear and how they evolve

It's a bubble-eats-bubble world out there.

Scientists find "Angel Particle" -- a particle that's its own antiparticle

It's the confirmation of a long-standing theory. Or is it?

For the first time, scientists catch water turning into 'ice seven' -- a strange form of alien ice

Ice isn't as boring as you think.

There are two kinds of liquid water, researchers find

It seems water has a personality crisis.

Scientists found lollipop-shaped ice crystals in some clouds

Ice lollipops in clouds sounds just delightful.

Electrocaloric refrigerators could be a more energy-efficient, light-weight alternative to today's fridges

Experimental technology for the future.

Why wheelie suitcases wobble out of control and what you can do to stop them

Ah, wheeled luggage -- a necessary evil.

Physicists make waves by simulating black hole in a bathtub

Your childhood fantasies weren't all that off.

Chinese satellite beams entangled particles over 1,200km away, sets the stage for unhackable quantum network

This is the beginning of the quantum internet.

Neutron and X-ray imaging reveal how ancient weapons were made

Looking deep inside a knife.

Physicists dream up LHC 2.0: a new particle accelerator three times bigger than the current LHC

Three times bigger and seven times more powerful. Particles have no idea what's in store for them.

Scientists develop largest simulation of the Universe to find dark matter

It's an impressive achievement.

Presenting the first 2D magnet: it will allow scientists to make previously impossible experiments

This magnet is just one atom thick.

Ultra slim sound diffuser could greatly improve your cinema and theater experience

It does the same job, while being 10 times thinner and much cheaper.

For the first time ever, we've seen a black hole being silently born -- no supernova required

Why blow up when you can mass up?

We've (unknowingly) created a radiation shield around the Earth using radios

Can your Internet landline do this? No.

It used to rain so hard on Mars it shaped the planet's geology

A first of its kind study found rain on Mars was quite abundant.

Tiny quantum refrigerator keeps quantum computers cool by 'blinking' electrons

Prepare for some quantum madness.

Time travel is proven possible -- but we'll likely never be able to build the machine, author says

He named his machine the TARDIS -- bonus points for that.

Though considered impossible, Harvard physicists have built a time crystal

This new state of matter could be key to building quantum computers.

Thermal diode could allow computers to one day function on heat alone

No more fans for us!

LHCb finds a deviation from the Standard Model which may hint at a new particle

The little brother of LHC might be on to something big!

Physicists coax superfluid to have 'negative mass'

The matter flows against the pushing force.

Why shoelaces untie themselves: you have good old physics to thank

The answer to this deceptively simple question could help scientists better understand structures like DNA.

Graphene-based sieve makes drinking water out of seawater

Desalination might one day be as easy as passing water through a sieve.

Nanoribbons pave the way for switching graphene 'on-off'

A novel and better way to make graphene into a semiconductor.

World's tiniest race will pit nanocars against each other in Toulouse this April

The stakes have never been so tiny.

Researchers found a supermassive black hole choking on its meal

Greedy!

NASA plans to use repellent coatings to coax liquids into flowing even when there is no "down"

Not a problem many would even think possible -- but a real one nonetheless.

Single-atom magnets used to create data storage one million times more dense than regular hard disks

Scaled up, it will likely lose some efficiency -- but will still leave HDDs in the dust.

Astronomers create the most accurate map of dark matter in the Universe

Seeing the unseeable.

NASA wants to create the coolest spot in the universe

It's cool, and it's totally out there!

Czech researchers turn graphene sheets into the first stable non-metallic magnets

Is there anything graphene can't do?

Earth's mantle is much hotter than we thought, scientists learn

For once, it's not something to do with global warming, phew!

Four-stroke internal combustion engine turned into a hydrogen reactor

A century-old machine has been turned into a 21st century hydrogen manufacturing device.

Thermal levitation can lift any object in the air, unlike other methods that work on magnetization or optical light

Large objects were levitated by exploiting temperature differences. This method works with any kind of object.

Blueprint for large scale supercomputer could open the road for billion-qubit machine, and the secrets of the universe with it

Quantum computers today are ineffective but this is set to change.

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