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Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks

Quantum computers will smash our best encryption. To make everything from online chats to government intelligence safe, we need maths no machine could solve

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Earth

Green is the new black: Redesigning clothes to save the planet

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Bunnies draped in fake polar bear fur are both cosy and stealthy

Physics

Bunnies draped in fake polar bear fur are both cosy and stealthy

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Electric eel-inspired batteries could power life-long pacemakers

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Electric eel-inspired batteries could power life-long pacemakers

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Three photons stick together to create a new form of light

Physics

Three photons stick together to create a new form of light

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How a bat’s hairy tongue lets it suck up nectar like a sponge

Physics

How a bat’s hairy tongue lets it suck up nectar like a sponge

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Earth

We all need to take our heads out of the sand

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Quantum time machine: How the future can change what happens now

Physics

Quantum time machine: How the future can change what happens now

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Quantum computing research

Physics

Is the quantum computer revolution really just five years away?

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Shrinking black holes avoid paradox by oozing hidden information

Space

Shrinking black holes avoid paradox by oozing hidden information

As black holes evaporate, they release particles that may carry more information than we thought, so black holes may not break the laws of physics after all

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Earth

These are the worst ready-made sandwiches for the climate

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Technology

Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

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Humans

Survey reveals extreme gender bias plagues STEM – it must change

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Humans

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

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