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Fire Ants Floating in Flood Water

Life

Fire ants form rafts that have weird properties when stretched

Fire ants link together to form rafts when their nests are flooded, and unlike most materials the rafts don’t become thinner when they are stretched

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Technology

AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium

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Falling diamonds on black background

Space

It might rain diamonds on more than 1900 exoplanets across the galaxy

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Environment

Animal bones ground into an edible paste could help reduce food waste

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Robert Moses

Comment

Why I explored the corrupting power of tech billionaires in The Future

Culture

Read an extract from The Future by Naomi Alderman

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Read an extract from The Future by Naomi Alderman

Culture

Chemistry

Notoriously complex material called 'plumber's nightmare' created

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HC Gilje

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Celebrating dark skies at a festival in deepest Denmark

Culture

Alastair Reynolds, British sci-fi author

Comment

The best new science fiction books of January 2024

Culture

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target

Space

In 2024 the Hera mission will revisit the asteroid punched by NASA

NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the European Space Agency is sending the Hera mission to investigate the collision’s aftermath

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Space

Get ready to see a total solar eclipse in 2024 – here's how

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Technology

Encryption upgrade in 2024 will keep data safe from quantum computers

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Environment

2024 could finally see greenhouse gas emissions start to decline

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Technology

Europe plans to build the world’s fastest supercomputer in 2024

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