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Physics

Certain quantum systems may be able to defy entropy’s effects forever

A mathematical proof shows that some quantum states can resist nature’s tendency to disorder – but only under very specific conditions

Health

The US is ramping up bird flu surveillance – but will it be enough?

Health

Slowing growth in life expectancy means few people will live to 100

Life

Two injured comb jellies can merge to form one individual

Technology

Hackers can turn your smartphone into an eavesdropping device

Health

Nobel prize for medicine goes to the pair who discovered microRNA

Perfect caramel sauce

How to make the perfect caramel sauce with Bake Off’s Josh Smalley

Health

MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD – what went wrong?

Technology

Will semiconductor production be derailed by Hurricane Helene?

Mathematics

Why the problem of P versus NP is worth $1 million

Mathematician Tom Crawford explains what P versus NP means – and what makes the problem so fiendishly difficult to solve

Space

Space may be filled with more antimatter than we can explain

Space

Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids

Earth

El Niño pattern can bring wet weather to UK one year later

Space

Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA’s redirection test