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Robotics meets the culinary arts A Swiss Italian team has created RoboCake, a robotic wedding cake that showcases the advances in robotic food research. The project was unveiled today at the Expo 2025 in Osaka.

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Wedding cake contains edible chocolate batteries that power candles

Unveiled at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, the cake is topped with gummy bears that move thanks to a pneumatic system

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Dire wolf ‘de-extinction’ criticised by conservation group

Physics

Ultra-secure quantum data sent over existing internet cables

Greater mouse-tailed bats

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Bats that walk backwards have developed unusual navigation strategy

Space

Powerful blasts of X-rays could reveal a black hole waking from sleep

Technology

We can build quantum computers using the rules of special relativity

The StarStarter game

Health

Phone game lowers social anxiety by shifting focus on to the positive

Life

Giant coral colony discovered in Red Sea tourism hotspot

XB-1 in transonic flight with riblet package test patches installed, Boom Supersonic

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Jets wrapped in ‘shark skin’ material could fly further on less fuel

Technology

Quantum batteries could make quantum computers more efficient

Powering quantum computers with quantum batteries would reduce the energy needed for cooling and enable machines to pack in more qubits

Physics

LHC breaks the record for heaviest antimatter nucleus ever seen

Environment

Will climate change lead to an industrial boom in the Arctic?

Health

Daily pill could replace weight-loss shots like Ozempic and Wegovy

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Reducing high blood pressure can cut risk of dementia