With First Mechanical Qubit, Quantum Computing Goes Steampunk

It’s similar to a drum skin that is simultaneously vibrating and still.

Killing cancer cells with alpha particles could be the next frontier in treatment

Injected treatment shreds the DNA of cancer cells with targeted radioactivity.

With more heat waves in our future, researchers say we need to look at clean cooling

Climate change is making heat waves more frequent and intense.

Samples from far side of the moon show history of ancient volcanoes

Fragments of volcanic rocks date back 4.2 billion years.

Improving your mobility will help reduce pain.

Bluesky describes itself as “social media as it should be”, although it looks similar to other sites.

Stretching is not the key to moving better.

Improving your mobility will help reduce pain.

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10 Places That Glow

Much like moths, humans are attracted to things that glitter and glow.

The most expensive photos ever taken

Tthe space shots that changed humanity’s view of itself.

Australia To Make Big Tech Liable For Citizens’ Online Safety

The Australian government plans to enact laws requiring big tech firms to protect its citizens online, the latest move to crack down on social media including through age limits and curbs on misinformation.

Open Source Fights Back: ‘We Won’t Get Patent-Trolled Again’

Businesses using open-source projects like Kubernetes are being targeted more often by patent trolls. Now the open source community is launching a counter-offensive and looking for volunteers.

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Meet Evo, the DNA-trained AI That Creates Genomes From Scratch

The model is able to predict how small DNA changes affect an organism’s fitness, generate realistic genome-length sequences, and design new biological systems.

Datacenters Line Up For 750MW of Oklo’s Nuclear-Waste-Powered Small Reactors

Increasingly, datacenter operators are putting their faith in the promise of small modular reactors (SMRs).

Surprisingly snuggly pythons upend what scientists thought they knew about snakes

Ball pythons, long thought solitary, repeatedly chose to eschew individual shelters and coil up together.

Diabetes in adults nearly doubles worldwide, study suggests

The global prevalence of diabetes has doubled since 1990 — from seven per cent to 14 per cent.

Fossil fills 70-million-year gap in understanding

he complete skull has been preserved almost intact, which makes it one of the most significant finds of its kind.

The ‘morphing’ wheel from South Korea that may transform lives and robots

Imagine a wheelchair equipped with wheels flexible enough to navigate all manner of obstacles from kerbs to humps and even staircases.

What did the snowball Earth look like?

Entire continents, even in the tropics, seem to have been under sheets of ice.

Missed Deadlines Lead People To Judge Work More Harshly, Study Says

Research into psychology of people in US and UK suggests it is better to submit work on time rather than perfecting it through procrastination.

World’s largest coral found in the Pacific

The mega coral could be more than 300 years old.

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British Museum given £1bn of Chinese ceramics

Items in the collection date from the third to 20th Century

How Italy Became an Unexpected Spyware Hub

RCS is just one node in a web of spyware vendors operating out of Italy with little oversight, according to cybersecurity researchers and Italian spyware experts.

Cheap Fix Floated For Plane Vapor’s Climate Damage

The climate-damaging vapours left behind by jet planes could be easily tackled, aviation experts say, with a new study suggesting they could be eliminated for a few pounds per flight.

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Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data

The Secret Service has used a technology called Locate X which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones. Because users agreed to an opaque terms of service page, the Secret Service believes it doesn’t need a warrant.

Even if you can’t hit 10,000 steps a day, walking has many health benefits

If you can talk but not sing while walking, that’s considered moderate-intensity exercise.