Illustration showing a large scale microwave trapped ion quantum computer.
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Many scientists thought it was impossible, but one team has finally done it. They say operating their quantum computer is just like playing a game of Pacman.
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Historic heroes like King Arthur have helped audiences through the ages to cope with troubling times.
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Is there method behind the US president’s seeming social media incontinence?
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Home owners and first time buyers are right to be confused, so how should you play expected changes to a low rates environment?
Did Diane Abbott get lost in the fog on the way to Westminster?
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After all the build up, you’d have been forgiven for expecting something a bit more impressive from parliament’s debate on triggering Article 50.
A destroyed church in Harasta, on the outskirts of Damascus.
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Prioritising groups of refugees, such as Syrian Christians, over others will only create further polarisation.
Austrian and Serbian policy patrol the EU border in mid January.
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Europe is also building walls.
Look! I can make an even bigger one.
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The serious science of toilet humour.
Preventative medicine could help to delay disease.
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Two experts argue the case.
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Businesses were top dog when it came to branding but popular politics show there’s a new player in town.
Real fictions: Édouard Louis.
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‘Autofiction’ has an important role to play in this new post-truth world.
The highly valuable element has been found on the Cornish coast.
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New lithium stores in Cornwall could give the UK a valuable domestic supply of the expensive commodity.
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But can they improve pupils’ behaviour?
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Filmmakers sympathetic to the plight of Mexican and Central American migrants are using their films to counter the fug of misinformation.
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In a crisis, governments often act just to be seen to be doing something. The difference with what Trump’s doing is that there is no crisis.
Studies show swearing might be big and clever after all.
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Swearing has often been associated with a lack of intelligence, but studies show that it could be a cleverer use of language than we thought.
What next?
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As a privileged mainstream protest movement rises, it should heed the experiences and triumphs of its more radical counterparts
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The gap between boys and girls starts early and grows quickly.
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Other EU members don’t want a neighbour that ignores air quality standards.
Turning its back on global talent?
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US businesses have benefitted from diversity and immigration has been an important source of this.
Happy partnership?
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There’s no middle ground when it comes to a president like this.
Synesthetic number form from the book Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia.
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Researchers are trying to train synaesthesia-like associations in people who don’t have the condition.
Dangerous times.
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The scientific evidence is surprising – and terrifying.
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The ‘global gag’ will not lower the rate of abortions, but it will increase misery and suffering.
Here goes.
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Neil Gorsuch’s views seem to put him to the right of many, if not most, Americans.