EnvironmentFertilisers are a major source of microplastic pollution in soil Soil samples from a long-running UK experiment show that microplastic pollution has risen sharply in the past 50 years and is much higher in fields treated with organic or inorganic fertilisers ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ
TechnologyFirst unhackable shopping transactions carried out on quantum internet A secure exchange between a merchant and a buyer has been successfully tested as a proof of concept using a small quantum computing network in China ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ