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Conceptual illustration of quantum fluctuations

Physics

The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowable quantum secret

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct

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Health

This virus infects most of us – but why do only some get very ill?

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Life

Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem

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Health

We’re getting closer to growing a brain in a lab dish

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IBM Quantum System Two

Technology

Most complex time crystal yet has been made inside a quantum computer

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Environment

Amazon is getting drier as deforestation shuts down atmospheric rivers

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Health

To halt measles’ resurgence we must fight the plague of misinformation

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ECG trace and mri brain scan, artwork

Health

Our brains play a surprising role in recovering from a heart attack

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Reflections in a canal

Physics

We have a new way to explain why we agree on the nature of reality

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Humans

Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known wooden tool

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human

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Health

Menstrual pad could give women insights into their changing fertility

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Space

The best map of dark matter has revealed never-before-seen structures

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Environment

Termination shock could make the cost of climate damage even higher

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Technology

Sierra Greer discusses her award-winning sex robot novel ‘Annie Bot’

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