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Indestructible quantum rifts can exist in two places at once

Researchers used a collection of charged atoms to create a quantum superposition of an exotic type of defect

Boosting brainwaves in sleep improves rats’ memory

Rats perform better on memory tests when certain brainwave-producing neurons are stimulated while they...

Mathematicians have found a new way to identify prime numbers

The first breakthrough in finding prime numbers for over 25 years has mathematicians celebrating,...

Writing backwards can trick an AI into providing a bomb recipe

AI models have safeguards in place to prevent them creating dangerous or illegal output,...

Listening to music after surgery seems to be an effective painkiller

People who listen to music after having surgery report lower levels of pain and...

The chemistry behind making a perfect caramel sauce

Bake Off finalist and chemical biologist Josh Smalley shares his recipe for the perfect caramel sauce with Catherine de Lange

If we reassessed what maths is, perhaps it wouldn’t make us so anxious

Fear of maths has been around for at least a century. Here are some ways to overcome it, says Sarah Hart, professor emerita of...

How genetically modified crops could feed us and help safeguard nature

There has been plenty of controversy over GM crops, but if deployed well they could have a positive environmental impact, says Graham Lawton

Stellar views of some of the most spectacular sights in the universe

These dazzling images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are from the upcoming book Cosmos: Explore the wonders of the universe, which has a...

Geoengineering is now essential to saving the Arctic’s ice

If we want to preserve the dwindling ice in the Arctic, cutting our emissions is no longer enough – we also need to use...

Samantha Morton stars in dystopian docudrama 2073

What if tech bros ruled the world, asks Asif Kapadia's 2073. This docudrama is captivating and disturbing, but lacks enough heft to stand out

How colonialism and industrialisation fuelled the climate crisis

There can be no victory in a war against nature, says Sunil Amrith in The Burning Earth, a must-read history of our environmental crisis

Chemists discovered the first new chemical bond in more than a decade

Though it was first predicted in the 1930s, chemists have just now managed to create a covalent bond that only uses one electron

The brain has its own microbiome. Here’s what it means for your health

Neuroscientists have been surprised to discover that the human brain is teeming with microbes, and we are beginning to suspect they could play a...

Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a...

Pain relief from the placebo effect may not actually involve dopamine

Dopamine was long thought to play a part in the placebo effect for pain relief, but a new study is questioning its true role

Axolotls seem to pause their biological clocks and stop ageing

In most vertebrates, a pattern of chemical marks on the genome is a reliable indicator of age, but in axolotls this clock seems to...

The fascinating truth about why common sense isn’t really that common

New research is revealing that common sense is a lot more idiosyncratic than we thought, with important implications for tackling political polarisation and the...

Are superconducting power lines the key to a cleaner grid?

High-temperature superconducting cables that could transform the power grid may be increasingly viable, thanks to a side effect of fusion energy research and new...
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