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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 physicist who argues that there are no objective laws of physics

Daniele Oriti’s pursuit of a theory of quantum gravity has led him to the startling conclusion that the laws of nature don’t exist independently...

Hackers can turn your smartphone into an eavesdropping device

Motion sensors in smartphones can be turned into makeshift microphones to eavesdrop on conversations, outsmarting security features designed to stop such attacks

Nobel prize for medicine goes to the pair who discovered microRNA

The 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on discovering microRNA and its...

MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD – what went wrong?

For years, it seemed MDMA-assisted therapy would revolutionise PTSD treatment. But poor trial design and alleged misconduct ultimately stopped the treatment from receiving government...

Will semiconductor production be derailed by Hurricane Helene?

Hurricane Helene hit a quartz mine in North Carolina that is key to global semiconductor production, which could impact the entire tech industry. Here...

Why the problem of P versus NP is worth $1 million

Mathematician Tom Crawford explains what P versus NP means – and what makes the problem so fiendishly difficult to solve

Space may be filled with more antimatter than we can explain

A detector on the International Space Station found signatures of unexpectedly abundant antimatter – which may have been created in clashes of dark matter...

Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids

Bacteria grown from carbon compounds in asteroids could be turned into a kind of nutritionally balanced milkshake

El Niño pattern can bring wet weather to UK one year later

El Niño and La Niña cycles driven by ocean temperatures in the Pacific can influence weather in the North Atlantic 12 months later –...

Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA’s redirection test

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s...

Parts of Antarctica are turning green at an ‘astounding’ rate

Satellite images of the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands reveal that the area covered by vegetation grew dramatically between 1986 and 2021 and the...

China’s answer to SpaceX’s Starlink is also threatening astronomy

The first 18 satellites of a planned Chinese mega constellation are brighter than all but 500 stars in the sky, raising fears of a...

Stem cell transplant gives hope for treating age-related sight loss

A monkey that performed poorly on vision tests did much better after having a stem cell transplant to patch up holes in its retina

Signals from exotic new stars could hide in gravitational wave data

A computer simulation suggests that some collisions between exotic, hypothetical stars would make space-time ripple with detectable waves
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