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A collection of sorted pieces of plastic collected from the beaches of Cape Town

Health

How worried should you be about microplastics?

Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come under fresh scrutiny. Chelsea Whyte cuts through the research to tell you whether you really need to worry

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Phantom codes could help quantum computers avoid errors

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Rare family has had many more sons than daughters for generations

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Health

Your microbiome may determine your risk of a severe allergic reaction

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Why the US is using a cheap Iranian drone against the country itself

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First drone passengers may be combat casualties and criminals

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Environment

Spreading crushed rock on farms could absorb 1 billion tonnes of CO2

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Life

Ants capture carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into armour

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Health

People who eat a lot of fibre spend more time in deep sleep

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Qunnect's Carina rack

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Inside the company selling quantum entanglement

Cables underneath New York City are teeming with entangled quantum particles of light thanks to Qunnect, a company that has spent a decade working on building an unhackable quantum internet

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Space

NASA’s Artemis moon exploration programme is getting a major makeover

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Health

Frailty can be eased with an infusion of stem cells from young people

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Technology

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

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Environment

Ocean geoengineering trial finds no evidence of harm to marine life

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