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Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades

The “Bell test” was devised in the 1960s to uncover what’s going on in the quantum world, but it continues to be relevant today, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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Light has been made into a fluid that simulates space-time

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2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

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Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

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WHA2R6 Frederic and Irene Joliet-Curie in their Paris Laboratory

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Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

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Could we build space-time computers that run on gravity?

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Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

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Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

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Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

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Do we have free will? Quantum experiments may soon reveal the answer

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A photon caught in two places at once could destroy the multiverse

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Black hole analogue Inside Silke Weinfurtner's black hole laboratory at the University of Nottingham in the UK

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Liquid physics: Inside the lab making black hole analogues on Earth

Inside Silke Weinfurtner's black hole laboratory, a giant water tank is helping physicists better understand the complexity of the universe

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Physicists reveal the secret to chopping onions without crying

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How dark energy findings may inspire a new generation of physics nerds

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Radical photon idea could rewrite standard model of particle physics

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The bold attempt to solve the toughest mystery at the heart of physics

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