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Earth science

Botanical ballistics: Nature's fastest plants

Life

Botanical ballistics: Nature's fastest plants

Most plants may be sluggards, but some accelerate faster than a rocket. Meet the world's most explosive flowers

Features

From god to gobbler: How the turkey got its breast

Life

From god to gobbler: How the turkey got its breast

Features

Getting medieval: The first firefights

Technology

Getting medieval: The first firefights

Features

Robot, robot, wherefore art thou robot?

Technology

Robot, robot, wherefore art thou robot?

Features

3D TV: Beware the barfogenic zone

Life

3D TV: Beware the barfogenic zone

Features

Toy-de-force: Inside the steampunk Lego lab

Technology

Toy-de-force: Inside the steampunk Lego lab

Features

Stuffing yourself in imagination curbs stomach pangs

Life

Stuffing yourself in imagination curbs stomach pangs

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Quantum links let computers understand language

Technology

Quantum links let computers understand language

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Physics

Quantum uncertainty controls 'action at a distance'

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Sea of photons made to act as one 'super-photon'

Physics

Sea of photons made to act as one 'super-photon'

For the first time, photons have been coaxed to march in lockstep as a Bose-Einstein condensate – the feat could help shrink electronic devices

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Physics

New evidence that weird quantum supersolid exists

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Technology

Cloaking effect in atoms baffles scientists

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Physics

Quantum thermometers usher in the big chill

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Space

Gravity genius: How I will spend half a million bucks

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