Where people and particles collide
What's it like to be in a gender or sexual minority at CERN, one of the most multicultural labs on the planet? Louise Mayor reports
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Revealing the network within
Jon Cartwright describes the emerging field of "network physiology", which uses physics to understand how organs communicate
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Could the accelerating expansion of the universe be explained by modifying general relativity so that gravity has mass?
Matthew Francis reports on a small but dogged group of physicists thinks the existence of dark energy might be a clue that we need to revise one of the most successful theories we hav...
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The rise of the quantum machines
James Millen and André Xuereb think we need to understand how thermodynamics works on a quantum scale before we can build quantum machines
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Loops and arcs in the radio sky
Michael Peel, Matias Vidal, Clive Dickinson and Paddy Leahy explain the latest map from the Planck Collaboration
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Occulting the stars: how a flower in space could help us find exoplanets
A recently published report describes a “starshade” currently being developed that would resemble a giant sunflower floating in space
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The code for better science: programming and astronomy
Jon Cartwright reports on the latest programming-language trends and the call for basic programming training as standard
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Flat-pack physics: where art meets science in the third dimension
From solar panels to nanoscale machines, physics applications of origami and kirigami have surged in recent years. Simon Perks reports
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Portrait of a black hole
Astronomers at the Event Horizon Telescope are aiming their global network of telescopes towards the black hole at the centre of our galaxy
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Six secrets of champagne
Gérard Liger-Belair reveals the hidden science of the world’s top sparkling wine
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