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Earth

England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

Anglo-Saxon England was unusually warm and stormy. Place names coined then could hold clues to how the weather will get wetter and wilder as the climate changes

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Technology

New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

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Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

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Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

Physics

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

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A 'magic number' of people walking across a bridge makes it sway

Physics

A 'magic number' of people walking across a bridge makes it sway

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Physics

Consciously quantum: How you make everything real

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We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

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We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

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Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration

Physics

Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration

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Physics

Quantum code: why building the ultimate computer is the easy bit

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Technology

The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone

Arguments over the causes of the gender gap in STEM jobs rage on. It's not due to hormones or innate brain differences, says Lise Eliot

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Physics

The most precise atomic clock ever made is a cube of quantum gas

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Physics

The Renaissance gambler who invented probability to win at cards

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Technology

This qubit redesign may make it easier to make quantum computers

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Physics

What if the diminutive electron isn’t as small as it gets?

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