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Light has been transformed into a 'supersolid' for the first time

Supersolids are strange materials that behave like both a solid and a fluid due to quantum effects – and now researchers have created an intriguing new type of supersolid from laser light

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Why exactly is the quantum world so weird?

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'Galloping' bubbles could act as tiny robotic vacuum cleaners

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Physicists capture a strange fractal ‘butterfly’ for the first time

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Time can move both forwards and backwards at the quantum scale

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How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?

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How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?

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Record-breaking neutrino spotted tearing through the Mediterranean Sea

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How big is a neutrino? We're finally starting to get an answer

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How cosmic stasis may drastically rewrite the history of the universe

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How cosmic stasis may drastically rewrite the history of the universe

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The perfect boiled egg takes more than half an hour to cook

If you have the patience to repeatedly switch an egg between a hot and a colder pan, you'll be rewarded with an amazing taste and texture, say physicists

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The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly strange

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The 100-year-old symmetry theorem that is still changing physics today

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Experiment with 37 dimensions shows how strange quantum physics can be

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A new kind of hidden black hole may explain the mystery of dark energy

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