Second team uses laser to excite thorium-229 nuclear transition
Rapid progress being made in development of nuclear clock
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Spacesuit backpack allows astronauts to drink their own urine
Researchers at Cornell University have created a prototype urine collection and filtration system
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Clams and algae collaborate to harvest sunlight very efficiently
Symbiotic relationship is explored by physicists
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Can you solve this pistachio packing problem?
Given a full bowl of pistachios, what size container do you need for the leftover shells?
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LEGO creates ‘space bricks’ made from meteorite dust
LEGO has teamed up with the European Space Agency to create the bricks using material from a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite
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How to get the errors out of quantum computing
Last week’s Quantum 2.0 conference laid out possible complementary approaches to the field’s biggest challenge
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Bringing the second quantum revolution to the rest of the world
A panel discussion about quantum technologies in low and middle-income countries offers perspectives on how to overcome barriers to participation
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Huge fault-tolerant quantum computers on the agenda at Commercialising Quantum 2024 conference
Quantum factories and profitability discussed in London
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Mars has frost-covered mountains at its equator but no lakes at its poles
Two new studies reveal where the red planet’s water is, and where it (probably) isn’t
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Silverstone racetrack hosts Institute of Physics summer festival
Matin Durrani brings you the highlights of the 2024 summer festival of the Institute of Physics
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