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Quantum computer core. Light rays passing through the nanoscale crystal core of a quantum computer. Quantum computers, which are under development, are based on quantum mechanics and the principle of representing information in quantum bits (qubits) using quantum properties. This could involve optical properties of chemically doped crystals, like the one shown here. Quantum computing has the potential to massively increase computing power.

Physics

An ambitious look at quantum physics is fun – but overdoes it a little

Attempts to describe quantum physics are rarely enjoyable, but Paul Davies' zeal in Quantum 2.0 sometimes steers too close to hype, finds Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Culture

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 15: 3D printed organ scaffolds by Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is displayed as part of the 'AI: More than Human' exhibition at the Barbican Curve Gallery on May 15, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Barbican Centre)

Health

A fascinatingly grisly guide to replacing and repairing body parts

Culture

Artist: Dean Patman 229 - Red Underwing Moth Medium: Found object sculpture Size: 47x67x14cm

Life

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Culture

The 19 best Christmas gifts for science lovers (and nerds)

Technology

The 19 best Christmas gifts for science lovers (and nerds)

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Mandatory credit Watson and Crick, discoverers of the structure of DNA. James Watson (b.1928, left) and Francis Crick (1916-2004), with their model of part of a DNA molecule in 1953. Watson and Crick met at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, in 1951. Their work on DNA was performed with a knowledge of Chargaff's ratios of the bases in DNA and access to the X-ray crystallography of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King's College London. Combining this knowledge led to the deduction that DNA exists as a double helix. Crick, Watson and Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Franklin having died in 1958. Photographed in the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK, in May 1953.

Life

Surprising new biography of Francis Crick unravels the story of DNA

Culture

A caretaker feeds chimpanzees inside their playground area at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Freetown, on April 24, 2025. The sanctuary, which rehabilitates orphaned Western chimpanzees, is a leading site for wildlife research and conservation education programs. Extremely popular with tourists, its keepers have defiantly kept it closed since late May. The protest is meant to spur the government into action over the rapid environmental degradation taking place in the national park where it is located. The deterioration does not just affect the chimps, experts say, but also inhabitants of the wider region including the nearby capital of Freetown, home to some two million people. (Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Life

Smart new book takes an axe to the myth of human exceptionalism

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Environment

New book tells compelling tale of the fight to save the Siberian tiger

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Binary star system, illustration.

Space

Deep-space sci-fi novel is delightful, profound and not to be missed

Culture

Father and daughter

Life

This book is a great insight into the new science of microchimerism

Culture

Life

Orcas are ganging up on great white sharks to eat their livers

For the first time, video footage has captured orcas in the Gulf of California hunting young great white sharks, using a trick to flip them over, paralise them and get at their energy-rich livers

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The best new science fiction books of November 2025

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Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings

Culture

Technology

Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

Culture