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Humans

Don’t Miss: tiny tech, a girl at the end of time and a mental mystery

This week, meet the technology that could transform health, beachcomb the Anthropocene and discover how syphilis and hysteria illnesses transformed neurology

Culture

Tiny graphene sheets can start or stop ice crystals growing in water

Physics

Tiny graphene sheets can start or stop ice crystals growing in water

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Quantum fluctuations

Physics

Heat can quantum leap across a totally empty vacuum

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Wooden building

Technology

Figuring out why trees are strong could help build wooden skyscrapers

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A picture of the chip

Technology

Nanotube microchips could make computers more energy efficient

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Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth

Earth

Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth

Features

video game screen

Technology

What it's like to play Call of Duty in a blacker-than-black room

Culture

People wearing protective clothing

Technology

Nanobots can eat nerve agents and then spit out an antidote

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Sticky yet slick material pulls water from foggy or humid air

Physics

Sticky yet slick material pulls water from foggy or humid air

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Bacteria-killing nanofibres could make clothes that stop disease

Physics

Bacteria-killing nanofibres could make clothes that stop disease

Antimicrobial fabric could slow the spread of diseases like Ebola. These nanofibres kill viruses and bacteria, and their active ingredient recharges in daylight

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Physics

Stretchy ‘electric skin’ generates power from your movements

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Life

Life lessons: The tiny neuro-gadgets rebuilding our bodies

Culture

Technology

Two-colour pixels let you draw pair of images in the same space

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Technology

3D-printed alloys could lead to lighter planes that fly further

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