SCIENCE

The odds of quantum weirdness being real just got a lot higher

An experiment with beams of photons has confirmed quantum weirdness existsluchschenF/Shutterstock The world is as weird as we feared. A…

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Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is at risk, warn former workers

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on 11 AugustUkranian Presidency/Handout/Getty Images A fire at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is the…

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Covid variant JN.1 may have become dominant due to just one mutation

JN.1 spread widely despite many people being vaccinated and having previous covid-19 infectionsDebarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto/Shutterstock One mutation may have been crucial…

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Conspiracy theorists may not really believe their outlandish ideas

An anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square, London, in August 2020Richard Baker/Getty Images Many people who respond to surveys saying that…

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Rollkur: Are horses in equestrian sports being harmed by neck hyperflexion?

A dressage horseiStockphoto During the Olympic equestrian events of dressage, horses display dance-like steps that demand high levels of muscular…

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Algae transformed into a ‘biofactory’ for green fuel and plastics

Chlamydomonas pacifica algae growing in an outdoor pondJoão Vitor Dutra Molino A newly discovered species of algae has been transformed…

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Controversial idea to save corals would replace them with new species

Could drastic action help restore coral reefs?Serge Melesan / Alamy Corals are being hit so hard by global warming that…

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Wafer-thin light sail could help us reach another star sooner

A mission to the sun’s closest neighbouring star, Alpha Centauri, could be made faster thanks to a tiny light sail…

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Online exercise: If your gym instructor is an iPad, what is lost – and gained?

FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images I have never attended the same gym as Eric Drinkwater, a sports scientist at Deakin University…

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Covid-19 hit women harder than men in India, unlike most of the world

New Delhi, India, in March 2020, during a curfew imposed as a preventive measure against covid-19Yawar Nazir/Getty Images The covid-19…

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