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The four Fields medal winners, clockwise from top left: Maryna Viazovska, James Maynard, Hugo Duminil-Copin and June Huh

Mathematics

Fields medal 2022: Work on prime numbers and spheres wins maths prize

Mathematicians who have studied the most efficient way to pack spheres in eight-dimensional space and the spacing of prime numbers are among this year's recipients of the highest award in mathematics, the Fields medal

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Engineers working with concrete

Environment

Firms pledge to clean up construction with green net-zero concrete

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Fusion power plant - credit UKAEA

Technology

Design work starts on European commercial fusion power station

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Brick houses in Boston, Massachusetts

Technology

‘Fair’ AI could help redress bias against Black US homebuyers

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The State Senate Chambers in the Kentucky State Capitol

Technology

DeepMind鈥檚 AI develops popular policy for distributing public money

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Earth Worm, Dallas City, United States

Environment

Alien earthworms have spread to almost all parts of North America

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Deep brain stimulation involves implanting electrodes in the cerebral lobes of the brain, linked through the scalp to wires that lead to a battery implanted below the skin that send electrical impulses to specific areas of the brain

Health

Brain electrodes may be a long-lasting aid for severe depression

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water lily

Life

Newly identified species is the world鈥檚 largest known giant water lily

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Illustration of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing complex

Health

鈥楽ofter鈥� form of CRISPR may edit genes more accurately

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An image of a feathered theropod dinosaur eating a mammal on a cold day

Life

Dinosaurs鈥� ability to survive icy cold helped them dominate the planet

Being already adapted to polar climes could have enabled dinosaurs to survive cold winters in the end-Triassic extinction event when most other animals died out

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Technology

Quantum computer cools itself down by performing calculations

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Earth

Reclassification of Earth’s minerals reveals 4000 more than we thought

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Technology

Molecular computer uses 10,000 times less energy than a normal one

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Environment

40 per cent of people could live outside ‘human climate niche’ by 2100

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