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A new book on quantum physics is pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics. Yet it isn't the accessible work it promised to be ...

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Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Computer simulations of high-energy particles are pushing the boundaries of what we can learn about the interactions that ...

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