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Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

Pests and disease threaten our supply of cocoa beans, but in a field outside London biologists are working to prevent a chocolate meltdown. We paid a visit

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Humans

Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time

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Earth

’Sno substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste

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Life

Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine

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How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke

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England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

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Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

Physics

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

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A 'magic number' of people walking across a bridge makes it sway

Physics

A 'magic number' of people walking across a bridge makes it sway

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Physics

Consciously quantum: How you make everything real

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We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

Technology

We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

Quantum computers will be useless if we can't trust their calculations. Now, two teams have programmed quantum systems to detect their own errors

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Physics

Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration

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Physics

Quantum code: why building the ultimate computer is the easy bit

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Technology

The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone

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Physics

The most precise atomic clock ever made is a cube of quantum gas

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