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Tiny chip could enable super-secure quantum Wi-Fi
A 1.8-millimetre-wide silicon chip with over 1000 components could help quantum devices communicate ...
The temperature of your face could help diagnose m...
Small changes to the temperature of your cheeks, nose and around your eyes could let an AI estimate ...
Ants amputate their nestmates’ limbs to save them ...
Ants are one of the few animals that tend to the injuries of their peers, and now it seems they are ...
How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the s...
Remote sensing, including lidar, reveals that the Amazon was once home to millions of people. The em...
AI can predict how monkeys play Pac-Man
An AI model learned to predict the choices made by monkeys and their eye movements while playing Pac...
Incredibly complex mazes discovered in structure o...
The atoms within quasicrystals are arranged in repeating forms, but unlike ordinary crystals they ha...
Canned water made from air and sunlight to hit US ...
US company Source, which makes solar panels that produce drinking water from moisture in the air, pl...
Ancient artefacts suggest Australian ritual endure...
Wooden sticks found in an Australian cave appear to match the accounts of a 19th-century anthropolog...
The hacker turned politician using digital tech to...
Taiwan’s first ever minister of digital affairs has transformed politics, using online platforms and...
Solar boom has replaced farmland that could feed m...
More than 1300 square kilometres of cropland worldwide was covered by solar panels in 2018, an area ...
The best new science fiction books of July 2024
The Matrix star Keanu Reeves’s debut sci-fi novel is out this month, written in collaboration with o...
Baby-led weaning makes little nutritional differen...
Despite its growing popularity, there has been little scientific investigation into parents who give...
Moss that survives deep freeze and radiation could...
Syntrichia caninervis is found in some of the most extreme places on Earth and can survive condition...
Time ticks faster on the moon by 57 microseconds p...
With lunar exploration ramping up, NASA has been tasked with defining a time zone for the moon. New ...
Should weight loss drugs be used to treat obesity ...
Two major US healthcare organisations have offered contradictory advice about the use of weight loss...
Record amount of water from 2022 Tonga eruption is...
Millions of tonnes of water vapour have been lingering in the atmosphere since the Hunga Tonga-Hunga...
Physicists determined the paper most likely to giv...
An experiment with a robot and gelatine determined that 65-micrometre-thick paper is the most prone ...
AI can identify the most brilliant and entertainin...
An AI that can tell which chess moves are awe-inspiring is being used to make a chess computer that ...
