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

Once defamed as slow and stupid, sloths are now recognised as masterworks of evolution – and we could all learn from their energy-saving tricks

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Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

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Life

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

Physics

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

Physics

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

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

Physics

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

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Physics

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

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Mussels

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Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour

Mussels grip onto rock using stretchy fibres with self-repairing molecular bonds. Mimicking the trick has inspired an extremely tough and elastic new material

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Technology

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

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Physics

The most precise atomic clock ever made is a cube of quantum gas

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Technology

Shape-shifting origami robot swaps bodies to roll, swim or walk

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Technology

Fighting fakery: How to make products immune to counterfeiting

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