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Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered

Particles of light can spend "negative time" passing through a cloud of extremely cold atoms – without breaking the laws of physics

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The crew will attempt the first commercial spacewalk with SpaceX-designed extravehicular activity suits, upgraded from the current intravehicular suit.

Space

Current laws cannot protect civilians in space if something goes wrong

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Technology

Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea

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Illustration of the giant black hole jets known as Porphyrion

Space

Black hole’s jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology

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Physics

Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

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Technology

‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench

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Computer generated three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus including the volcano Maat Mons.

Space

Venus could be rocked by thousands of quakes every year

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Some lizards can stay underwater for longer by blowing out and then rebreathing bubbles of air. This has been suspected since the behaviour was first observed, and now Lindsey Swierk at Binghamton University in New York has confirmed it.

Life

Air jacket helps ‘scuba-diving’ lizards stay underwater for longer

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Environment

People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of the 1 per cent

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Technology

Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested from empty space

A quantum computing protocol makes it possible to extract energy from seemingly empty space, teleport it to a new location, then store it for later use

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Physics

Our reality seems to be compatible with a quantum multiverse

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Life

Some flowers may have evolved long stems to be better ‘seen’ by bats

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Physics

Hopes for new physics dashed by ordinary-looking W bosons at CERN

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Invisible messengers: How neutrinos reveal the secrets of supernovae

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