Science
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Mathematicians find odd shapes that roll like a wheel in any dimension
A 3D shape of constant width as seen from three different angles. The middle view resembles a 2D Reuleaux triangle…
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Elephants seem to invent names for each other
Two juvenile elephants greet each other in Samburu National Reserve in Kenya George Wittemyer Elephants may be the only animals…
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How materials that rewind light can test physics’ most extreme ideas
For an experiment designed to reverse time, the apparatus was surprisingly simple: little more than a tank of water. With…
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Quantum 'arrow of time' suggests early universe had no entanglement
One way to explain why time only moves forward is the quantum arrow of time, and it has major implications…
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Eclipse 2024 live: Watch the full total solar eclipse via NASA’s broadcast – latest
On 8 April, a total solar eclipse will sweep across Mexico, the US and Canada. This kind of eclipse only…
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Physicists have worked out how to melt any material
Predicting when solids will melt is more difficult than you might think r.classen/Shutterstock Physicists may finally have an answer for…
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Europa Clipper: NASA’s mission to moon of Jupiter isn’t meant to find alien life – but it could
An artist’s impression of Europa Clipper near the moon it is named after NASA An instrument on a NASA spacecraft…
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Gold flecks make super-transparent glass fully opaque from one side
Objects seen through a glare-free material are clear, while conventional anti-glare film (right) blurs the view Mu Wang et al./Nanjing…
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Exclusive: Aid groups have no concrete long-term health plans for Gaza
Children at a temporary shelter in Rafah, in southern Gaza Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua/Alamy The situation in Gaza is rapidly devolving into…
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AI could help replicate smells in danger of being lost to history
Some scents are at risk of vanishing forever. Can AI replicate them? blickwinkel/Alamy Artificial intelligence can whip up the formula…
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