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IBM has just made error correction easier for quan...
The difficulty of quantum error correction has been a major stumbling block for quantum computers, b...
Consciousness traced to specific clusters of nerve...
Researchers have mapped how clusters of nerve cells in the brain connect to regulate wakefulness, wh...
Blood test could tell if a fever is due to infecti...
Analysis of gene activity in a blood sample can help determine if a fever is caused by bacterial inf...
AI chatbots become more sycophantic as they get mo...
If a person says they believe an objectively false statement, AIs tend to agree with them – and the ...
Do honeyguides really help honey badgers find bees...
An African bird called the greater honeyguide is said to lead honey badgers to beehives. Despite dec...
Making your phone screen blurry could stop people ...
Thanks to the way human eyes work, a system that makes your phone screen blurry can prevent people r...
Lauren Beukes on why she tackled the multiverse in...
The award-winning author of The Shining Girls on how her 'magpie curiosity' about everything from ne...
Read an extract from Bridge by Lauren Beukes
This tantalising extract is taken from Bridge by Lauren Beukes, the latest pick for our New Scientis...
Astronomers have found a strange new type of extre...
A new type of star may eventually collapse and become a magnetar – a highly magnetic neutron star, w...
Extreme fires caused by ancient humans wiped out C...
A series of catastrophic fires killed off many large mammals in southern California by 13,000 years ...
All of Neptune’s clouds have vanished – it may be ...
Over the past few years, the white clouds that usually shroud Neptune’s surface have disappeared, an...
Black holes may be hurtling around at 10 per cent ...
When two black holes merge to form a single one, it can zoom off at an extraordinary pace – but scie...
Flies riding on a carousel suggest that insects li...
Fruit flies with access to a spinning carousel seem to ride on it for fun in a rare case of play-lik...
Driverless cars may struggle to spot children and ...
The accuracy of pedestrian-detecting AI systems may be biased against some groups of people, fuellin...
Wildfires made worse by plants starting to grow ea...
Wildfires in the northern hemisphere burn more fiercely when plants start growing earlier in the yea...
Negative emotions really do make events seem to la...
When people are shown pictures evoking negative emotions, they remember time as passing more slowly,...
Flying bird robot can soar so well it uses almost ...
An autonomous flying robot can float in place like a bird, using its throttle just 0.25 per cent of ...
Morning-after pill is more effective when taken wi...
The emergency contraceptive levonorgestrel is much more effective at preventing pregnancy if the ant...
