The Advantage2 quantum processing unitD-Wave A quantum computer is successfully mining cryptocurrency in the first experiment of its kind, while…
Fragments of the skull (left) and shoulder blades (right) of a woman buried at Loch Borralie, UKRebecca Ellis-Haken A woman…
Light micrograph of a human egg cell after fertilisationCC STUDIO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY When a rogue researcher in China revealed in…
Waves supercharged by El Niño hit the California coast in 2016Eliason/Zuma Wire/Shutterstock A “Godzilla El Niño” is coming, according to…
Hum is set in an over-heated near-future metropolisIngram Publishing / Alamy Hum by Helen Phillips, the story of a mother’s…
Paul Erdős made many conjectures about numbers in his lifeOliver Helbig/Getty Images Just a week after an AI disproved an…
White shirt material being cleaned with cold plasmaUniversity of Alabama in Huntsville, Propulsion Research Center Astronauts in space can’t do…
We may now know how Mercury gained its ice depositsNASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Around 100 million years ago, the surface…
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Charred trees still standing after a wildfire in Glacier National Park, MontanaGorski/NurPhoto/Shutterstock In 2021, a smouldering underground coal seam ignited…