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The first quantum computer to break encryption is ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses ...

Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s ...

In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't ...

Male octopuses have a favourite arm that they most...

The third right arm of male octopuses has a specialised role in mating, and the creatures take extra...

The best new popular science books of April 2026

April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everythin...

Virus from marine animals is causing weird eye pro...

A virus seems to have jumped from marine animals into people for the first time ever, and it is caus...

Plug-in solar is coming – how dangerous is it and ...

Plug-in solar panels are a cheaper, simpler alternative to professionally installed panels. But can ...

Historians dispute link between drought and rebell...

A study based on tree rings claimed that droughts played a role in events that led to the Roman with...

The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

A collection of stories set in George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe and a novel from The Expans...

A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ ...

The muon collider was once dismissed as impossible, but is now gaining steam as the successor to the...

Attacks from our immune system are a cause of long...

The immune system going rogue and attacking healthy tissue seems to behind some cases of long covid,...

New fibre optic record allows 50,000,000 movies to...

Improved hardware can send ten times as much data through existing fibre optic cables, potentially p...

Astronauts are ready to return to the moon on Arte...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the first time humans have been around the moon in half a century,...

What kind of olive oil is best for the brain?

The science suggests that olive oil can help us fight cognitive decline and even Alzheimer’s. Column...

Food shock is inevitable due to the Iran war – and...

Even if the conflict in the Middle East ends today, higher fuel, fertiliser and pesticide prices wil...

The profound effect the heart-brain connection has...

Cognitive decline, mental health and heart disease are all shaped by the deep links between heart an...

The Shroud of Turin bears DNA from many people, pl...

Researchers have identified genetic material from a vast range of organisms contaminating the shroud...

The Turin Shroud bears DNA from many people, plant...