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Allowing for moves that create quantum superpositions makes a quantum version of a Rubik’s cube incredibly complex, but not impossible to solve ...

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Mars is often touted as the next planet people could inhabit, but the amount of radiation we would be exposed to would ...

The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to have more to do with ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or ...

The pressure of a watching audience can have positive or negative effects on human performance, and it turns out the same is ...

A robot dog chased down a ball and clambered over obstacles after learning the skills from images and video generated by artificial intelligence. Ge Yang at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the ...

There may be more bird flu cases in humans in the US than we previously thought. Health departments in two states took blood ...

Mixtures of oil and water can be efficiently separated by pumping them into thin channels between semipermeable membranes, ...

Chronic pain has increased among adults in the US since 2019, which could be due to a rise in sedentary lifestyles or reduced access to healthcare amid covid-19 restrictions ...