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Conceptual art of network

Technology

Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

Quantum communications are theoretically secure, but keeping a complex quantum network unhackable in practice is more difficult than expected

News

Scientists looking through pink and blue dishes

Humans

Survey reveals extreme gender bias plagues STEM – it must change

Comment

In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

Humans

In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

Culture

rubbish mountain

Life

China's plan to stop recycling the world's rubbish may backfire

Analysis

Black hole

Space

Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes

News

Michel Chasles

Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

Features

Nocturnal sun artwork

Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

Features

holly wreath

Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

Features

bird in nest

Life

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

Features

book pages

Humans

We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home

From artificial spiders to melting lead teaspoons, The Young Man’s Book of Amusement was a science primer of the weird, wacky and downright dangerous

Features

Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

Features

Technology

New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

Features

Technology

2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines

News

Humans

Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time

Features