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Technology

Hollow nanoparticles linked by DNA make unusually strong materials

Particles that are too small to be assembled into materials with conventional methods can be bound together with DNA molecules – the result is clumps of unusually strong and stiff material

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Plastic scrap in landfill

Technology

Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene

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Physics

Quantum engine could power devices with an ultracold atom cloud

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Free will

Mind

Free will: Can neuroscience reveal if your choices are yours to make?

Features

Physics

Squeezing loofah sponges creates enough electricity to power LEDs

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ORDOS, CHINA - JULY 7, 2023 - Citizens use photovoltaic energy from the roof of a shed to charge an electric vehicle at a public parking lot in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, July 7, 2023. Ordos City vigorously promotes the construction of photovoltaic power generation projects on the roofs of administrative institutions, government agencies, schools and public parking sheds. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Environment

How to reach net zero five times faster

Features

Back to the Future

Comment

The 10 best time travel movies ever made, according to a metaphysicist

Culture

Syndrome in The Incredibles

Comment

Five of sci-fi's best corporate villains, according to author John Scalzi

Culture

City-wide quantum communication network in China is most advanced yet

Physics

City-wide quantum communication network in China is most advanced yet

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Society

Can the UK’s new ARIA science agency deliver ‘moonshot’ technologies?

Originally dreamed up by Dominic Cummings, the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has been tasked with a high-risk, high-reward approach to research funding

Analysis

Physics

Why nature is the ultimate quantum engineer

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Technology

Quantum batteries that charge wirelessly might never lose efficiency

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Physics

A brief history of the standard model, our theory of almost everything

Features

Physics

An alternative way to picture the standard model of particle physics

Features

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