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Light has been transformed into a 'supersolid' for...
Supersolids are strange materials that behave like both a solid and a fluid due to quantum effects –...
Ancient humans used bone tools a million years ear...
Hominins may have learned how to make bone tools by adapting the techniques they mastered for stone ...
The critical computer systems still relying on dec...
Software used by banks and the space industry may still rely on archaic code. We went in search of t...
The solar system was once engulfed by a vast wave ...
The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was ...
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win Turing award f...
The Turing award, often considered the Nobel prize of computing, has gone to two computer scientists...
Chimps and bonobos relieve social tension by rubbi...
When competition for food is high, both chimps and bonobos sometimes rub their genitals together to ...
DOGE eliminated the US government’s tech experts –...
The Trump administration’s latest move to improve government efficiency has purged tech consultants ...
The first water may have formed surprisingly soon ...
Water is an essential part of life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere – and now it we know it may have...
The cosmic landscape of time that explains our uni...
A strange new conception of how time warps across the universe does away with cosmology's most myste...
The secret of how Greenland sharks can live cancer...
We are starting to understand how Greenland sharks can live for centuries without commonly developin...
Why exactly is the quantum world so weird?
We can describe the quantum realm using straightforward mathematics – but once we try to translate t...
Can genetically engineered 'woolly' mice help brin...
Colossal Biosciences has altered several genes in mice to make them look more mammoth-like, but the ...
Fungus offers a new way to cut down on methane in ...
Soil fungi can make a compound that disrupts how cow stomachs produce the potent greenhouse gas meth...
Cryptography trick could make AI algorithms more e...
Encryption would normally be expected to slow down computation, but applying the tools of cryptograp...
US military wants to grow giant biological structu...
DARPA scientists are exploring ways to grow massive biological objects, such as telescope antennas o...
The alarming rise of colorectal cancer diagnoses i...
Colorectal cancers will soon be the number one cause of cancer death among people under 50. Could ch...
The best new science fiction books of March 2025
John Scalzi, Silvia Park and Ai Jang all have new books out this month. Whether it’s time travel or ...
Ancient ancestor of the plague discovered in Bronz...
The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the...
