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Ten years after the Higgs discovery, what now for particle physics?

After the Higgs, the Large Hadron Collider was expected to find other theorised particles. It didn鈥檛, but particle physicists are optimistic about a new era of experiment-led exploration

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Health

Personalised cancer vaccines are finally beating hard to treat tumours

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Life

How climate change is knocking natural events wildly out of sync

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Space

Feryal 脰zel on what the first two pictures of black holes tell us

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Mind

Why does time fly or drag? How emotions warp our temporal perceptions

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Life

How do we make the most of our time? The power of confronting death

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Earth

How long does evolution take? It happens on two different timescales

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JILA?s three-dimensional (3-D) quantum gas atomic clock consists of a grid of light formed by three pairs of laser beams. A stack of two tables is used to configure optical components around a vacuum chamber. Shown here is the upper table, where lenses and other optics are mounted. A blue laser beam excites a cube-shaped cloud of strontium atoms located behind the round window in the middle of the table. Strontium atoms fluorescence strongly when excited with blue light.

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Jun Ye interview: What use is the world’s most accurate clock?

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8 Can we live without time?

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Can we live without time? Not if we value a solid sense of self

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

Physicists have long sought to marry general relativity and quantum mechanics 鈥� now some reckon experiments that probe the way each theory treats time could finally make it happen

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Physics

Will time ever end? The answer lies in the death throes of the cosmos

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Physics

What is time? The mysterious essence of the fourth dimension

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Physics

Could we ever go back in time? Relativity does not rule it out

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Mind

How do we sense time? The brain cells that order our memories

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