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Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animals conquered the land
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Greatest science books: Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World is still supremely relevant today
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The secrets to keeping your brain sharp in old age
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Sperm have been made magnetic to allow IVF inside the body
Embryos have been formed from sperm that have been made magnetic to…
The social media ban is an experiment – here’s how it will be studied
A social media ban for under-16s means young people’s childhoods are set…
Killer robots are here – we must finally decide whether to accept them
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Quantum computer quickly mines cryptocurrency while using less energy
The Advantage2 quantum processing unitD-Wave A quantum computer is successfully mining cryptocurrency…
