Picture reveals tiny plasma whirlpool-like patterns that have never been seen before
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Leron Borsten and Shanti Pise report from a week-long event that sought to teach quantum physics to teenagers
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Faramarz S Gard laments the decline of Argentine science
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Iulia Georgescu looks at the curious history of the journal Physics
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SI units, quantum sensors, compact particle acceleration and improved radiotherapy all feature in a new free-to-read briefing
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The Col du Clapier route would have been the more energetically favourable
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Exploration of quirky Nobel prizes bags ABSW award
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Mirror Moon has been created by the British artist Luke Jerram
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The new technique offers a new way to tackle art fraud
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The work is an important step to understanding the physics of “negative triangularity”
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