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Unbreakable: The MIT time-lock puzzle

Physics

Unbreakable: The MIT time-lock puzzle

A giant of internet cryptography has devised a code that he says will take 35 years to solve – with a mystery prize sealed in lead. MacGregor Campbell reports

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Physics

Super-accurate clocks emerge from 'heat haze'

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Push to define year sparks time war

Space

Push to define year sparks time war

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Physics

Starting over: Let's decimalise time

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Memory fails time-travelling chimps

Earth

Memory fails time-travelling chimps

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Your kitchen sink, and 16 other wonders of the cosmos

Your kitchen sink, and 16 other wonders of the cosmos

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Turn back time to deafen enemy divers

Technology

Turn back time to deafen enemy divers

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Online photo coincidences betray your friends

Technology

Online photo coincidences betray your friends

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Technology

Mirror trick could boost Blu-ray discs

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How to cloak a crime in a beam of light

Technology

How to cloak a crime in a beam of light

The 14th member of Danny Ocean's team of thieves might just be a physicist, making use of an "event cloak"

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Life

Formula for the perfect marathon carb load

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Health

Have gene findings taken the stigma from ADHD?

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Life

Anti-antibiotics: Bugs, drugs and bureaucrats

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Space

Countdown to oblivion: Why time itself could end

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