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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.

Graph showing the gravitational wave signal from LIGO

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Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

The historic detection of gravitational waves, announced in February, left New 杏吧原创 with an unprecedented postbag of questions from readers. We didn't have space to answer them all, but we put a selection of them to gravitational wave expert Martin Hendry of the University of Glasgow, UK, who is a member of the LIGO collaboration that made the discovery

Illustration of a planet losing its atmosphere

Environment

Stars burn away the atmospheres of close-in super-Earths

LIGO 1

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How we found them: Inside a giant gravitational wave detector

gravastar

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Was gravitational wave signal from a gravastar, not black holes?

Picture of Mars with clouds

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Unexplained plume over Mars could be caused by solar outburst

close-up of professor brian cox

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Brian Cox: Science can teach politicians to be humble

Layout of 5-cubit device

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Try your hand at programming IBM’s online quantum computer

Physics

Trio of Earth-sized planets around nearby star could reveal life

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Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

penguins artwork

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That’s odd: Unruly penguins hint where all the antimatter went

Rare 鈥減enguin鈥� particle decays should all happen at the same rate. They don鈥檛鈥� perhaps providing a clue to why we live in a universe made of matter

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That’s odd: Axis of evil stretches across the cosmos

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That鈥檚 odd: Missing neutrinos may be shapeshifters

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That’s odd: Quantum entanglement mangles space and time

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That’s odd: Why is gravity so weak?