SCIENCE

Waves reflecting off Earth’s core shifted Japan after 2011 earthquake

The fishing port of Kesennuma, Japan, in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake in 2011Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty…

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Sperm have been made magnetic to allow IVF inside the body

IVF has helped many people overcome fertility problems, but could be improved by doing more of the process within the…

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Quantum computer quickly mines cryptocurrency while using less energy

The Advantage2 quantum processing unitD-Wave A quantum computer is successfully mining cryptocurrency in the first experiment of its kind, while…

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Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead

Fragments of the skull (left) and shoulder blades (right) of a woman buried at Loch Borralie, UKRebecca Ellis-Haken A woman…

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Are we getting to the point where it’s safe to gene-edit babies?

Light micrograph of a human egg cell after fertilisationCC STUDIO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY When a rogue researcher in China revealed in…

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The looming El Niño could be bad – but much worse is to come

Waves supercharged by El Niño hit the California coast in 2016Eliason/Zuma Wire/Shutterstock A “Godzilla El Niño” is coming, according to…

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Climate Fiction prize winner Helen Phillips: ‘The book is in the future, but everything is seeded from our present’

Hum is set in an over-heated near-future metropolisIngram Publishing / Alamy Hum by Helen Phillips, the story of a mother’s…

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Mathematical AI helps researchers crack 50-year-old problem

Paul Erdős made many conjectures about numbers in his lifeOliver Helbig/Getty Images Just a week after an AI disproved an…

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Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes with a plasma beam

White shirt material being cleaned with cold plasmaUniversity of Alabama in Huntsville, Propulsion Research Center Astronauts in space can’t do…

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Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day

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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