Science
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Do we all see red as the same colour? We finally have an answer
What does red look like? Image Professionals GmbH / Alamy Does everyone experience colour in the same way? A new…
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Two huge black holes merged into one and went flying across the cosmos
An image of the quasar 3C 186, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center A rare…
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Global sea ice levels just hit a new record low
Sea ice on the Arctic Ocean Shutterstock / Kevin Xu There was less sea ice covering the oceans in February…
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Quantum disorder is dependent on who is looking for it
A new understanding of how an observer can change the disorder, or entropy, of a quantum object could help us…
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Men taking antibiotics could cut rates of bacterial vaginosis in women
Light micrograph of a cervical smear, or pap smear, from someone with bacterial vaginosis DR. Y. BOUSSOUGAN/CNRI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Women…
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The critical computer systems still relying on decades-old code
Earlier this year, the technology world welcomed back a long-lost friend. ELIZA, the world’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, had wowed…
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Health scares for a new generation must be tackled with solid science
Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library “Careless pork costs lives”, wrote The Sun newspaper, a British tabloid, in a headline about the…
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Norovirus vaccine pill shows promise against ‘winter vomiting’ bug
An artist’s impression of the norovirus Science Photo Library/Alamy An early trial of a norovirus vaccine pill has shown promise…
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Ancient humans used bone tools a million years earlier than we thought
Bones that appear to have been fashioned into tools date back 1.5 million years CSIC Ancient humans were regularly making…
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Light has been transformed into a ‘supersolid’ for the first time
Light has been made into a strange material called a supersolid Baac3nes/Getty Images An odd solid that can flow like…
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