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Technology

Why predictive text is making you forget how to write

Typing with 2500 keys is hard, which is why autocomplete has been around in China since the 1950s. But now it’s everywhere – and it’s messing with your brain

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Life

Comb jelly videos are rewriting the history of your anus

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Humans

Holiday brain-off round 2: Test your reaction time

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Technology

Old 51¶¯Âþ: How to get drunk rationally

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Earth

Animal magnetism: Why dogs do their business pointing north

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Technology

Fold your own universe with our cosmic origami decoration

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Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering

Technology

Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering

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Quantum photocells, which look like an arrangement of grey squares on a darker background

Life

Quantum solar cells could explain why plants are green

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Starfield where the neutron stars observed are located

Space

Quantum particles seen distorting light from a neutron star

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Physics

Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality

Just how much of physics is real, and how much of reality is physics? That’s a theme uniting four major new books in the field

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Space

Gravity may have chased light in the early universe

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Physics

The world in 2076: The theory of everything is here – we think

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Technology

Quantum computers can talk to each other via a photon translator

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Physics

Smallest sliver of time yet measured sees electrons fleeing atom

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