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See the latest physics news and expert analysis on dark matter, the multiverse, theoretical and particle physics, quantum theory, and more from the world of physics.

Two pictures of a beetle side by side showing the difference between images taken with left-handed and right-handed light. The beetle is bright in the left ahnd image and dark in the right hand image

Physics

Nano-camera lens reveals the hidden mirror world of molecules

Left- or right-handedness can be the difference between a medicine or poison. A camera lens made with nanotechnology may shed light on such mirror image molecules

Carlo Rovelli

Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

Physics

Find exomoons by watching how they warp their planet’s light

Physics

The alien world that’s being vaporised by a death ray

Image of a simulated black hole merger

Physics

Nearly naked black hole lost its ‘clothes’ to a gravity rip tide

Earth

Magnets could pull oil out of ocean before wildlife is harmed

Two black holes spiralling together

Physics

LIGO discovers new gravitational wave 鈥� and new era of astronomy

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Health

Is proton beam therapy really a game-changing cancer treatment?

dark energy

Physics

Dark energy must die 鈥� these rebel physicists can take it down

A woman at a blackboard covered in equations

Humans

Quick fixes on stereotypes won鈥檛 mean more female scientists

Brain Scanner聽is聽Simon Oxenham's weekly column that sifts the pseudoscience from the neuroscience

Physics

Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap

Physics

Four new element names to be added to the periodic table

Physics

Ghostly neutrino could be behind cosmic expansion mystery

Physics

Gravity probe LISA Pathfinder achieves best ever free fall