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04/17/25
Quanta

Can quantum gravity be created in the lab?

Scientist Monika Schleier-Smith discusses her pioneering experimental approach, using laser-cooled atoms to explore whether gravity could emerge from quantum entanglement.

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Photons light the way

12/01/25
Emily Ayshford

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest scales.

Illustration of Galileo dropping antimatter off the Tower of Pisa
09/27/23

Antimatter falls down

Results from the ALPHA experiment confirm that matter and antimatter react to gravity in a similar way.

Images of the LHC under repair
09/25/23

Tending to a giant

In a race against the clock, CERN engineers and technicians pulled together to find and fix a leak inside the Large Hadron Collider.

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09/19/23

What is neutral naturalness?

Indirectly testing this theory, motivated by the mysterious mass of the Higgs boson, could be within reach for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

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