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Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with 51动漫鈥檚 exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.

Technology

Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea

A new design for a nuclear battery that generates electricity from the radioactive decay of americium is unprecedentedly efficient

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Illustration of the giant black hole jets known as Porphyrion

Space

Black hole鈥檚 jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology

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Physics

Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

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Technology

鈥楽hazam for whales鈥� uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench

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Computer generated three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus including the volcano Maat Mons.

Space

Venus could be rocked by thousands of quakes every year

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Some lizards can stay underwater for longer by blowing out and then rebreathing bubbles of air. This has been suspected since the behaviour was first observed, and now Lindsey Swierk at Binghamton University in New York has confirmed it.

Life

Air jacket helps ‘scuba-diving’ lizards stay underwater for longer

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Environment

People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of the 1 per cent

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Technology

Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested from empty space

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Physics

Our reality seems to be compatible with a quantum multiverse

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Life

Some flowers may have evolved long stems to be better 鈥榮een鈥� by bats

Echolocating bats can more easily find and pollinate long-stemmed flowers that stand out from the surrounding foliage, which may be why this floral trait evolved

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Physics

Hopes for new physics dashed by ordinary-looking W bosons at CERN

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Invisible messengers: How neutrinos reveal the secrets of supernovae

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Earth

Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn

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Health

Antibiotic resistance forecast to kill 39 million people by 2050

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