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Physics

Quantum Rubik’s cube has infinite patterns but is still solvable

Allowing for moves that create quantum superpositions makes a quantum version of a Rubik鈥檚 cube incredibly complex, but not impossible to solve

Space

Why does our universe have something instead of nothing?

Rachel Kushner

Creation Lake author Rachel Kushner on the ‘ultimate writer’s task’

Space

We are a long way from pregnancy being safe on Mars

Mind

Why hairy animals shake themselves dry

Technology

Slick trick separates oil and water with 99.9 per cent purity

Health

Bird flu antibodies found in dairy workers in Michigan and Colorado

Two yellow-bellied marmots on a rock in the Okanagan area of British Columbia, Canada

Life

Marmots could have the solution to a long-running debate in evolution

Environment

Carbon emissions from private jets have exploded in recent years

Space

Chinese rover finds further evidence for an ancient ocean on Mars

Data collected by the Zhurong rover and orbiting satellites suggests the existence of an ancient shoreline in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars

Humans

DNA analysis rewrites the stories of people buried in Pompeii

Humans

Ancient Egyptians shaped sheep’s horns 鈥� and we don’t know why

Physics

Knots made in a weird quantum fluid can last forever

Health

More people are living with pain today than before covid emerged