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Keith Burnett, the current president of the Institute of Physics, talks to Matin Durrani about his career in physics, the ...

Quantum sensors made from superconducting qubits might be able to detect this mysterious substance, say physicists ...

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The team found that a school of fish moving together in just the right way – flapping their tail fins at alternate times ...

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