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IBM launches commercial quantum computing – we’re not ready for what comes next
IBM recently unveiled what it claimed was the world’s first commercial quantum compute…
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Dark matter - what is it?
Dark matter is a form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter…
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Breakthrough ‘speed test’ in quantum tunnelling, and here’s why that’s exciting
When you deal with things at the quantum scale, where things are very small, the world…
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New evidence for a human magnetic sense and brains
Do human beings have a magnetic sense? Biologists know other animals do. They think it…
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Anxieties over livestreams can help social networks content moderation
As families in Christchurch bury their loved ones following Friday’s terrorist attack,…
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Mysterious red spots on Mercury get names – but what are they?
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, but far from being a dull cinder of a world,…
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Evidence of aliens? What to make of research and reporting on ‘Oumuamua, our visitor from space
As an astrophysicist, probably the most common question I get asked is: “Are we alone …
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A Goblin could guide us to a mystery planet thought to exist in the Solar system
Out in the depths of the Solar system, astronomers recently discovered a small, icy ob…
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There are missing objects at the fringe of the solar system
In the dimly lit spaces of our solar system beyond Neptune’s orbit lies the Kuiper Be…
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