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Ultracold atoms in space will let us stress test Einstein's relativity

Potassium and rubidium atoms aboard the International Space Station have been cooled almost to absolute zero to put a fundamental principle of Einstein’s general theory of relativity to the ultimate test

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Is space-time quantum? Six ways to unpick the fabric of the universe

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Is space-time quantum? Six ways to unpick the fabric of the universe

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Can recreating black holes in the lab solve the puzzles of space-time?

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Can recreating black holes in the lab solve the puzzles of space-time?

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How we could discover quantum gravity without rebuilding space-time

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Do we live in a hologram? Why physics is still mesmerised by this idea

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Do we live in a hologram? Why physics is still mesmerised by this idea

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Will artificial intelligence ever discover new laws of physics?

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Will artificial intelligence ever discover new laws of physics?

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Black holes

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Black holes wobbling three times a second have proved Einstein right

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Einstein's gravity principle still correct, finds most precise test

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Why general relativity is known as a background independent theory

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Time loops may not be forbidden by physics after all

Physicists find that causal loops, where two events separated in time influence each other in paradoxical ways, are allowed in many theoretical universes, some of which share features with our own

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Will we ever unite physics? Clocks in superposition could offer clues

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Hot plasma mirror may help solve Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox

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First picture of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole revealed

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Most precise atomic clock shows Einstein’s general relativity is right

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