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Topic: quantum mechanics

DNA double helix among the stars (Getty Images/PASIEKA)

Scientists detect “DNA of the universe”

Matthew Rozsa
Galaxy Brain (Getty Images/ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Is consciousness a quantum phenomenon?

Troy Farah
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The physics Nobel Prize gets spooky

Robert Young - The Conversation
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Does Ockham's Razor still work?

Luke Shors, Amit Chandra
Conceptual artwork of a pair of entangled quantum particles or events (left and right) interacting at a distance. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Why physicists don’t understand reality

Jed Brody
A double-slit interference of the sunlight passing through two slits ~1 cm long and ~0.5 mm apart. (Wikimedia/Aleksandr Berdnikov)

How quantum theory clashes with reality

George Greenstein
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Metaphysics hides in quantum mechanics

George Greenstein
The magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid) (AP/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

How everyone can learn quantum mechanics

Scott Bembenek, PhD
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How lasers became synonymous with cool

Jason Rhode
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Scientists harness quantum spookiness

Robert Young - The Conversation
Albert Einstein (AP/)

Why nobody believed Einstein

Scott Bembenek, PhD
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion with a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its center. In October 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away. (Getty/NASA)

How neutron stars make gold

Keith A. Spencer