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Physics

We’ve seen particles that are massless only when moving one direction

Inside a hunk of a material called a semimetal, scientists have uncovered signatures of bizarre particles that sometimes move like they have no mass, but at other times move just like a very massive particle

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Environment

Viruses may help store vast amounts of carbon in soil

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Physics

There may be a cosmic speed limit on how fast anything can grow

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Life

World’s largest tree is also among the oldest living organisms

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Technology

One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI

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Physics

Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corners

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Environment

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

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Health

War-era sugar rationing boosted health of UK people conceived in 1940s

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Environment

Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate

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Humans

A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones from eight people

Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found in a 2nd-century cemetery is made up of bones from many people spanning thousands of years – but we don’t know who assembled it or why

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Technology

Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibrations with radar

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Mathematics

Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare

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Technology

Simple fix could make US census more accurate but just as private

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Health

Michelangelo’s ‘The Flood’ seems to depict a woman with breast cancer

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