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2026

May 13, 2026

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Is Life Quantum? Meeting the Winners of FQxI's US$53,000 Competition. And Did the Evolution of Human Cognition Require Gravitational Waves?
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2025

December 31, 2025

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The Year in Physics Review 2025
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October 31, 2025

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Poltergeist and Primordial Black Holes: Cosmologist Bernard Carr on Physics and the Paranormal
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October 3, 2025

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FQxI's Essay Competition Asks How Quantum is Life? Plus Plant Intelligence, Physicists Surveyed on Controversial Opinions & Should Journals Pay Peer Reviewers?
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June 1, 2025

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Dark Energy Bombshell? Cosmic Results from DESI and ACT & Rethinking Gatekeeping in Science Publishing
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February 18, 2025

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The Origin of Life, Assembly Theory & the Problems with Peer Review
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2024

December 31, 2024

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The Year in Physics Review 2024
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February 17, 2024

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The Universal Constructor: A Conversation with David Deutsch
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2023

December 31, 2023

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The Year in Physics Review 2023 Part 3
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December 29, 2023

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The Year in Physics Review 2023 Part 2
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December 28, 2023

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The Year in Physics Review 2023: Part 1
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December 24, 2023

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Is there a Theory of Everything? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 6
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April 7, 2023

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What is Life? What is Consciousness? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 5
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April 3, 2023

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Does Objective Reality Exist? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 4
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March 25, 2023

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Is There a Multiverse? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 3
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March 17, 2023

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Is Our Universe Fine-Tuned For Life? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 2
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March 16, 2023

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Is Science Becoming Less Disruptive?
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March 8, 2023

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Is Time an Illusion? Great Mysteries in Physics Part 1
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2022

December 31, 2022

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The Year in Physics Review Part 3: Concluding our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham.
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December 30, 2022

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The Year in Physics Review Part 2: Continuing our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham.
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December 28, 2022

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The Year in Physics Review Part 1: Beginning our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. We start with a discussion about whether a wormhole really was created in a quantum computer, in the lab?
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August 20, 2022

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Testing Time: Quantum physicists Fabrizio Piacentini and Laura Knoll discuss their recent experiment testing the predictions of Constructor Theory, a new meta-framework of physics that may encompass all other theories. The new framework could solve the mystery of why time marches in only one direction, even though the microscopic laws of physics are reversible. With Logan Chipkin
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June 30, 2022

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Happy Higgs-versary! Particle physicist Kevin Black tells Zeeya Merali about the LHC's new quest. Also, time-travel at the LHC, an update on the W Boson tests with Frank Wilczek; Catalina Curceanu on testing the origin of consciousness; & Queensland physicists are building quantum clocks.
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June 27, 2022

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The End of Everything: Astrophysicist Katie Mack on her book describing ways to destroy the universe, & on hints of new physics at the LHC; a quantum engine that heats & cools simultaneously; how the thermodynamic gradient may have driven the evolution of intelligence through culture; & the UK's physics of life network.
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June 21, 2022

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'Quantum dots' can teach us about thermodynamics in the nanorealm.
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