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Fire Ants Floating in Flood Water

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Fire ants form rafts that have weird properties when stretched

Fire ants link together to form rafts when their nests are flooded, and unlike most materials the rafts don’t become thinner when they are stretched

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Technology

AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium

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Falling diamonds on black background

Space

It might rain diamonds on more than 1900 exoplanets across the galaxy

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Environment

Animal bones ground into an edible paste could help reduce food waste

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Robert Moses

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Why I explored the corrupting power of tech billionaires in The Future

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Read an extract from The Future by Naomi Alderman

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Read an extract from The Future by Naomi Alderman

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Chemistry

Notoriously complex material called 'plumber's nightmare' created

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ISS still

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14 science fiction films to watch out for in 2024

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HC Gilje

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Celebrating dark skies at a festival in deepest Denmark

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A0M50F Drain Sink Tub Bath

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Molecular Storms review: Unsung physics helps unpick life's complexity

Liam Graham's book is an ambitious, sometimes technical bid to explain how unflashy thermodynamics answers deep questions about the structure of our cells, Earth and the universe

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The best new science fiction books of January 2024

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Space

In 2024 the Hera mission will revisit the asteroid punched by NASA

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Space

Get ready to see a total solar eclipse in 2024 – here's how

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Technology

Encryption upgrade in 2024 will keep data safe from quantum computers

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