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‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle

‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party

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Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case.

Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound

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It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement

Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

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Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing

Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine’

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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

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Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder

One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles

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The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks

The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

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The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End

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Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light