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Physicists discover the secret to perfect cacio e pepe pasta
The classic Italian cacio e pepe pasta is notoriously tricky to get right, but physicists have come up with a trick to achieve a perfectly smooth cheese sauce
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Bizarre test shows light can actually cast its own shadow
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Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them
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What is the price of genius, asks biography of Roger Penrose
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Heat can flow backwards in a gas so thin its particles never touch
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Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science
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The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?
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Tiniest ‘ruler’ ever measures distances as small as an atom’s width
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We physicists could learn a lot by stepping beyond our specialisms
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Can we solve quantum theory鈥檚 biggest problem by redefining reality?
With its particles in two places at once, quantum theory strains our common sense notions of how the universe should work. But one group of physicists says we can get reality back if we just redefine its foundations
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How strange ice could form in the extremely hot interiors of planets
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A slight curve helps rocks make the biggest splash
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How to unsnarl a tangle of threads, according to physics
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A microscopic diving board can cheat the second law of thermodynamics
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