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Magnets could pull oil out of ocean before wildlife is harmed

Earth

Magnets could pull oil out of ocean before wildlife is harmed

Oil-binding nanoparticles allow simple magnets to draw oil out of water, a tool that could quickly remove toxic leaks from ocean habitats

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Health

Is proton beam therapy really a game-changing cancer treatment?

Insight

Two black holes spiralling together

Space

LIGO discovers new gravitational wave – and new era of astronomy

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dark energy

Space

Dark energy must die – these rebel physicists can take it down

Features

A woman at a blackboard covered in equations

Humans

Quick fixes on stereotypes won’t mean more female scientists

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Ions held in place by a laser

Technology

Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap

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Personal silhouetted against big display of periodic table

Physics

Four new element names to be added to the periodic table

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cosmic expansion

Space

Ghostly neutrino could be behind cosmic expansion mystery

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Gravity probe LISA Pathfinder achieves best ever free fall

Space

Gravity probe LISA Pathfinder achieves best ever free fall

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picture of Elon Musk

Technology

Is Elon Musk right, are we really living in a simulated cosmos?

Why is technology evangelist Elon Musk so convinced that we are part of some giant computer simulation, wonders Geraint Lewis

Comment

Space

Why is the universe expanding 9 per cent faster than we thought?

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Life

60 Seconds

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Physics

Schrödinger's cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half

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Humans

Family or science: women shouldn't have to choose

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