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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...

Map of the immune system changing with age may help optimise vaccines

Our immune cells change a lot as the decades progress, which could explain why we become more susceptible to certain conditions

Forcing people to change their passwords is officially a bad idea

A US standards agency has issued new guidance saying organisations shouldn’t require users to change their passwords periodically – advice that is backed up...

Bacteria can work as a team to spot prime numbers and vowels

Bacteria that have been genetically engineered to work like computers can solve a range of problems, using a very simple type of artificial intelligence

Jet contrails may cool the planet by day and warm it by night

An AI-assisted analysis of satellite images suggests the vapour trails produced by aircraft have a net cooling effect in the daytime because they reflect...

What voice assistants like Alexa know about you – and how they use it

Voice assistants can build profiles of their users’ habits and preferences, but the consistency and accuracy of these profiles vary

Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank

Astronomers listened for radio signals emanating from planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, but found no evidence of any interplanetary communications

These fish have evolved legs that can find and taste buried food

Northern sea robins are formidable marine hunters, and they owe their success to modified fin rays that let them find prey buried in the...

Rachel Kushner’s Booker-shortlisted Creation Lake is top-notch

For an undercover operative, Sadie Smith takes unnecessary risks as she infiltrates an eco-activist group. Why? And where do the Neanderthals fit into Creation...

Camellia oil could be the greenest cooking oil – and the healthiest

Replacing some existing vegetable oil crops with camellia oil could boost production while reducing environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions

Planet in the ‘forbidden zone’ of dead star could reveal Earth’s fate

A distant planet should have been consumed when its star expanded to become a red giant, perhaps offering insights into planetary migration

How much should we worry about the health effects of microplastics?

A flurry of studies has found microplastics in nearly every organ in the human body, from the brain to the testicles. But very few...

We now know who was cannibalised on the doomed Franklin expedition

DNA and genealogical evidence reveal, for the first time, the identity of cannibalised remains recovered from the Franklin expedition

Dinosaurs may have run like emus by keeping one foot on the ground

It seems to be more energy efficient for emus to keep one foot on the ground when running at a moderate pace, and the...

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
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