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Life

Find the flow: Harnessing the incredible power of living fluids

We're beginning to learn the rules that govern how everything from flocks of birds to sperm cells flow, and it could transform technology and medicine

Features

A fine-tuned universe may be controversial but can't be ignored

Life

A fine-tuned universe may be controversial but can't be ignored

Comment

Synthetic iris could let cameras react to light like our eyes do

Technology

Synthetic iris could let cameras react to light like our eyes do

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Google on track for quantum computer breakthrough by end of 2017

Technology

Google on track for quantum computer breakthrough by end of 2017

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Walk really fast to stop a wobbly suitcase ruining your holiday

Physics

Walk really fast to stop a wobbly suitcase ruining your holiday

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Physics

Footballers move around pitch like chaotic particles in a fluid

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Astronomer looking through telescope

Space

Time to embrace our odd place in the cosmos, inside a huge void?

Comment

Micius satellite

Space

Chinese satellite beats distance record for quantum entanglement

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Projecting power: A new dance work makes darkness visible

Humans

Projecting power: A new dance work makes darkness visible

Culture

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Humans

8 Minutes: How to dance the speed of light

The idea that movement helps us grasp abstruse science is key to 8 Minutes, a new piece of contemporary dance coming soon to Sadler's Wells, London

Culture

Space

Spectrum wars: The battle for the airwaves

Features

Space

Mistaken brown dwarf is actually two planets orbiting each other

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Physics

Time, mass and custard provide the physics in The Earthworks

Culture

Physics

Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

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