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Weird ice found on Neptune and Uranus has now been made on Earth

Physics

Weird ice found on Neptune and Uranus has now been made on Earth

Bizarre ice that forms under intense pressure and high temperatures may cause Neptune’s and Uranus’s odd magnetic fields. Now, we’ve made this stuff on Earth

News

Shrinking black holes avoid paradox by oozing hidden information

Space

Shrinking black holes avoid paradox by oozing hidden information

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Galaxies

Space

Dancing galaxies may shake up our ideas of galaxy formation

News

Sound waves may be able to trigger earlier tsunami warnings

Physics

Sound waves may be able to trigger earlier tsunami warnings

News

Gundelach tubes

Physics

Ghostly images show the history of X-ray tubes

Regulars

A gamma-ray burst

Space

Dark matter near black holes sends gamma rays from galaxy's core

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Wave of massive volcanoes created Earth's first supercontinent

Earth

Wave of massive volcanoes created Earth's first supercontinent

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Neutrinos may have more kinds of cosmic sources than we thought

Physics

Neutrinos may have more kinds of cosmic sources than we thought

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3D Princess Leia image

Technology

3D ‘holograms’ made with lasers by moving one particle at a time

News

A selection of dice from archaeological digs

Physics

Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair

Dice from archaeological digs in the Netherlands and the UK became fairer 600 years ago – 250 years before we began to really understand probability

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Space

Deadly solar flares may have helped seed life on Mars and beyond

News

Space

So long, suckers: Where have all the black holes gone?

Features

Technology

Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

News

Physics

The universe still seems to be expanding faster than it ought to

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