Life Time: Bio-art comes of age at a gem of a show
15 January 2018
From sound pollution in the North Sea to the destruction of the North Dakotan landscape by big engineering, a Dutch art show gives us a glimpse at time
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Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet
15 January 2018
Quantum communications are theoretically secure, but keeping a complex quantum network unhackable in practice is more difficult than expected
Copycat justice has turned US counties into execution hotspots
15 January 2018
Criminals assigned the death penalty are five times more likely to be executed in some US counties than in others – a trend that some argue is unconstitutional
Voice assistants dominate CES as Google plays catchup with Alexa
12 January 2018
Google had more than 350 voice-controlled devices at the Consumer Electronics Show, including speakers, cars, and a giant toy town complete with a railway
You may be making cryptocurrency for hackers without realising
12 January 2018
Thousands of websites are tricking people into mining cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, adblockers might be the only way to stop them
We may be able to see mountains and valleys on distant worlds
12 January 2018
If alien planets have canyons and mountains like ours, we may be able to catch a glimpse of them in an exoplanet’s shadow as it passes in front of its star
The universe still seems to be expanding faster than it ought to
12 January 2018
The universe is expanding but our measurements of the rate are all over the place and they just got worse, so we can’t tell when the cosmos is going to die
Mars has ice sheets 130 metres thick hiding below its red dust
11 January 2018
Eight newfound Martian cliffs made up of layers of ice could tell us how the Red Planet's climate has changed in the past several million years
UK's plastic bag ban is a pitiful attempt at a greener future
11 January 2018
Talk of cutting plastic pollution has grabbed the headlines, but the UK’s long-awaited 25-year plan for the environment consists almost entirely of vague aspirations and vacuous promises
Mystery dark matter may be ordinary neutrons that have decayed
11 January 2018
Dark matter makes up a lot of the universe, but we still don’t know what it is. Could it be neutrons decaying into strange particles that shun normal matter?
