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Artist's impression of two quantum particles

Physics

Quantum teleportation used to send 3D information for the first time

Quantum teleportation has only ever been performed with qubits, which have two dimensions. Now it’s been done with a 3D qutrit for the first time

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Netflix’s bizarre riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein oddly successful

Life

Netflix’s bizarre riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein oddly successful

Culture

Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science

Humans

Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science

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What is trans fat? - cakes and biscuits.

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Trans fat

a cross section of the modified wood

Physics

A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable

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saturated fat

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Saturated fat

What if you could erase your political opponents? Sci-fi has answers

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What if you could erase your political opponents? Sci-fi has answers

Culture

To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

Physics

To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

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Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

Physics

Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

Features

Cholesterol

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Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a fatty molecule found in our bodies and in our food.

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Carbohydrates

Space

Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

Regulars

Technology

Superstrong artificial muscle can lift 1000 times its own weight

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Humans

Don't miss: Green films, rare plants and a cosmos tour

Culture

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