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Why we need to invoke philosophy to judge bizarre concepts in science

Theories of mind and cosmos are inevitably preposterous - knowing how to weigh competing implausibilities can help us decide which we should back

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How to wrap your head around the most mind-bending theories of reality

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How to wrap your head around the most mind-bending theories of reality

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‘Running of the bulls’ festival crowds move like charged particles

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People run from bulls in Pamplona, Spain

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‘Sound laser’ is the most powerful ever made

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Rethinking space and time could let us do away with dark matter

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How one theory ties together everything we know about the universe

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vortices on Jupiter

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Jupiter’s stormy surface replicated in lab

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35-ton-capacity Prototype cryostat for LBNF / DUNE, Anode Plane Assemblies - Construction of the DUNE 35-ton prototype detector

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A tale of two mysteries: ghostly neutrinos and the proton decay puzzle

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Inside the UKs the Joint European Torus

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Future of fusion: How the UK's JET reactor paved the way for ITER

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UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusion project

Since Brexit, the UK no longer has access to ITER, the world's largest nuclear fusion experiment, through the European Union. After an invitation to rejoin this week, the UK government has confirmed it prefers to go it alone

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How do you recycle a nuclear fusion reactor? We're about to find out

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Tiny magnet could help measure gravity on the quantum scale

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Cooling and storing aluminium cans

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Odd quantum property may let us chill things closer to absolute zero

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A single atom could drive a piston in a quantum engine

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