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’Sno substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste

As temperatures rise, resorts are turning to artificial snow to make the champagne powder ski nuts desire. But that could be making climate change worse

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Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine

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How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke

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England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

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The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

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Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

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Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

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Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

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A 'magic number' of people walking across a bridge makes it sway

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A 'magic number' of people walking across a bridge makes it sway

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Physics

Consciously quantum: How you make everything real

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We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

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We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

Quantum computers will be useless if we can't trust their calculations. Now, two teams have programmed quantum systems to detect their own errors

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Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration

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Quantum code: why building the ultimate computer is the easy bit

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Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour

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Technology

The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone

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