SCIENCE

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

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

SCIENCE

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

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

SCIENCE

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 infections Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto/Shutterstock One mutation may have been

SCIENCE

Conspiracy theorists may not really believe their outlandish ideas

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

SCIENCE

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

A dressage horse iStockphoto During the Olympic equestrian events of dressage, horses display dance-like steps that demand high levels of

SCIENCE

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

Chlamydomonas pacifica algae growing in an outdoor pond João Vitor Dutra Molino A newly discovered species of algae has been

SCIENCE

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

SCIENCE

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

SCIENCE

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

SCIENCE

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-19 Yawar Nazir/Getty Images The