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The maths problems that secure your online bank transactions and emails may soon be undermined by quantum technology. It's imperative we act now, before it's too late ...

Feedback is delighted by the discovery of a very specific scientific sculpture park in China - and wonders if readers can top it ...

A method that relies on hitting materials with neutrons can measure how much quantum entanglement hides within them, which could enable new kinds of quantum technology ...

Massive herbivores became scarce in the Middle East about 200,000 years ago, and this coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the archaeological record ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the archaeological record - though scientists are still in debate about why ...

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even more powerful kind of metamaterial that can teach us about the wild frontiers of physics ...

By tracing the origins of an unusual, short-lived particle, researchers have gathered some of the strongest evidence yet that mass can emerge from fluctuations in the vacuum ...

James Watson's The Double Helix is probably one of the greatest science books of all time - but Michael Le Page finds he can't recommend that anyone actually reads it ...

Two of the forefathers of quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, had a famous argument over whether light is a wave or a particle. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan finds that the matter has been settled once and for all ...

The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission have captured extraordinary views of the moon, including close-ups of the far side and a breathtaking solar eclipse ...