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Why quantum satellites will make it harder for states to snoop
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Getting to Proxima b might become an existential requirement
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The scary reality of medical U-turns, and how to stop them
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Dark force hunter wants to make darkness from light
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Shadow worlds: Have we seen our first glimpse of dark forces?
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Darwin and DNA: How genetics spurred the evolution of a theory
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Technology
Second Snowden could be behind sale of NSA hacking tools
The hunt is on to identify the Shadow Brokers, the group that put NSA hacking tools up for auction. Evidence is mounting that it is another inside job
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Earth
First US offshore wind farm will power an entire island
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Health
Drug-free IVF could be cheaper and faster way to get pregnant
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Space
NASA gets in touch with spacecraft two years after it vanished
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Earth
Arctic passage of huge cruise ship worries environmentalists
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Health
Why do women keep taking HRT despite breast cancer risks?
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Health
US pregnancy-related deaths are rising and have doubled in Texas
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Space
Proxima b: Earth-like planet spotted just 4 light years away
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Birds sing to their unborn chicks to warn them about hot weather
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Life
Synthetic supermicrobe will be resistant to all known viruses
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Physics
Quantum trick sees two things happen before and after each other
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Humans
Oldest jewellery in East Asia is crafted 37,000-year-old shell
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Completely see-through mice pave way to mapping human brain
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Health
A bad night鈥檚 sleep messes with your brain鈥檚 memory connections
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Humans
Iceman 脰tzi rocks the bear-fur hat and goat-leather coat look
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Environment
Marsupial lion鈥檚 primate-like forearms made it a unique predator
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Life
Fluorescent jellyfish proteins light up unconventional laser
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Space
Hyperactive galaxy could run out of gas in just 8 million years
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Humans
Bunnies helped a great civilisation in ancient Mexico thrive
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Earth
Giant ancient supervolcanoes threw rock right across Australia
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Technology
Move over silicon: Machine learning boom means we need new chips
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Technology
Whisper tech turns secrets into normal speech
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Technology
Scammer AI can tailor clickbait to you for phishing attacks
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Blockchain grid to let neighbours trade solar power in Australia
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Physics
Why quantum satellites will make it harder for states to snoop
With the launch of the world鈥檚 first quantum communication satellite, the era of unhackable communication has begun
News
Space
If Earth-like planet Proxima b has life, what might it be like?
News
Health
Calcium dementia link is reminder of the dangers of supplements
News
Features
Physics
Shadow worlds: Have we seen our first glimpse of dark forces?
The identity of the invisible stuff that holds galaxies together has long been a mystery. Now it might have been unmasked 鈥� and it鈥檚 not what we expected
Features
Physics
Dark force hunter wants to make darkness from light
Features
Health
The scary reality of medical U-turns, and how to stop them
Features
Life
Darwin and DNA: How genetics spurred the evolution of a theory
Features
Culture
Humans
We are gods of the future 鈥� but what will we do?
As we hurtle towards tomorrow, will we choose algorithmic determinism or voyages into inner space? Yuval Noah Harari plays with the future in his new book
Culture
Life
Europe at Midnight: SF, with a very British take
Culture
Humans
Money alone won’t turn us into unselfish citizens
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