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Puzzle game launched to help program quantum computers

Technology

Puzzle game launched to help program quantum computers

Researchers developing large-scale quantum computers hope that playing a video game will provide the solutions they need to program their advanced machines

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Life

Farmers may have been accidentally making GMOs for millennia

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Life

Rare Australian bird farms nourishing manna from trees

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Physics

Feedback: Quantum theory and the science of queueing

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Physics

With science if at first you don’t succeed, keep trying

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Space

Beyond experiment: Why the scientific method may be old hat

Features

Quantum weirdness may hide an orderly reality after all

Physics

Quantum weirdness may hide an orderly reality after all

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Humans

Without a sugar tax, obesity strategy has fat chance of success

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Competition: Your chance to have a sci-fi idea made into a film

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Paul Stamets

Life

The mushroom man who wants the world to take fungi seriously

Mushrooms are seriously underrated. They detoxify living animals, can restore ecosystems and could even terraform other planets, says mycologist Paul Stamets

Opinion

Space

Feedback: Mars is blue, says chronicler of space oddities

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Health

The flavour factory: Hijacking our senses to tailor tastes

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Life

Meathooked: How eating meat became a global obsession

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Physics

Frozen quantum gas tied into knots for the first time

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