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The perfect boiled egg takes more than half an hour to cook
If you have the patience to repeatedly switch an egg between a hot and a colder pan, you'll be rewarded with an amazing taste and texture, say physicists
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Amazing plesiosaur fossil preserves its skin and scales
A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs that lived during the same period
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New device can scan your face in 3D from hundreds of metres away
A lidar scanner has a resolution so high it can image ridges and indentations of only 1 millimetre on objects hundreds of metres away – and capture objects as distant as 1 kilometre
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032 – how worried should we be?
The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we should be scrambling to prepare for an impact in 2032?
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Cuddling koalas show unexpected sociable side in surprising video
A group of male koalas were filmed grooming and playing together, in contrast to their solitary reputation, probably as a result of an unusually dense population in southern Victoria
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Scientists fear losing essential climate data during Trump upheaval
A temporary loss of access to key datasets on levels of CO2 in the atmosphere added to concern about the potential fallout of the Trump administration’s attacks on climate science
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Barcodes: How they could be your latest mathematical party trick
Barcodes contain a checksum – an ingenious use of mathematics that even lends itself to a fun way to surprise your friends, says Katie Steckles
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Would we recognise alien intelligence, asks Adrian Tchaikovsky novel
In Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky's intriguing new novel, two women marooned on a strange moon encounter alien life – and struggle to recognise intelligence in other beings, finds Emily H. Wilson
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Chilling images reveal melting ice worlds
Winning images from the 2025 Walk of Water photo competition showcase vanishing frozen landscapes, from sparkling ice caves to melting glaciers
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Explore what shaped Bill Gates in part one of his autobiography
A driven teenager up nights working on computer schemes. Could this be Bill Gates? Chris Stokel-Walker reads the much anticipated story of the billionaires's early years, as told by the man himself
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How futurism took an abrupt right turn in the 20th century
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti coined the word futurism in 1909, going on to take an extreme rightward swerve into politics. This way of thinking about the future still influences us today, says Annalee Newitz
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George R. R. Martin finally finishes… a physics paper
Feedback digs into the first peer-reviewed paper from the Game of Thrones author, and concludes that he may have picked the wrong fictional universe to analyse
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Why an increasing belief in alien visitations is a real-world problem
Increasing numbers of people believe Earth has probably been visited by aliens. That’s a societal problem, says Tony Milligan
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DeepSeek has burst the AI hype bubble – now all bets are off
The Chinese firm threatens the dominance of Silicon Valley’s AI elite, and its innovations show the technology could be more affordable and less costly to the environment
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Enigmatic people who took over Europe millennia ago came from Ukraine
A huge study of ancient DNA reveals the origins of the Yamna, who spread across Eurasia around 5000 years ago, showing they came from a mixing of populations north of the Black Sea
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New type of brain cell may tell us when to stop eating
Mice have neurons that can be controlled to stop them eating - and people probably have them too
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Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known modern bird
A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and geese that lived 69 million years ago
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Indoor cannabis farms in US use more energy than all other agriculture
Two-thirds of US cannabis is grown indoors, requiring lights and temperature control that produce a vast amounts of emissions
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The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly strange
The odd superconductivity found in layered graphene may bring us closer to understanding room-temperature superconductors
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Layered graphene has revealed a strange new kind of superconductivity
The odd superconductivity found in layered graphene may bring us closer to understanding room-temperature superconductors
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