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Technology

Can India build a world-leading computer chip industry from scratch?

India currently has a fairly small chip-manufacturing industry, but prime minister Narendra Modi wants the country to become a dominant player in the sector in just a few years

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Space

Japan’s SLIM moon lander has shockingly survived a third lunar night

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light-trapping device

Physics

Quantum forces used to automatically assemble tiny device

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Life

Culling predatory starfish conserves coral on the Great Barrier Reef

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Technology

Why curbing chatbots’ worst exploits is a game of whack-a-mole

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Health

Why we need to modernise our emotional relationship with cancer

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Digital generated image of huge sphere made out of wasted plastic on blue background.

Environment

Let’s not trash recycling technologies that could end plastic waste

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Life

Huge genetic study redraws the tree of life for flowering plants

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A worker inside the vacuum vessel of the DIII-D fusion reactor

Physics

Nuclear fusion experiment overcomes two key operating hurdles

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Health

Your diet may influence how effective vaccines are for you

Obese mice that lost weight on a low-fat diet before getting a flu shot had better immune responses than those that lost weight afterwards, suggesting diet and weight loss influence vaccine efficacy

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Life

Huge dinosaur footprints belonged to one of the largest raptors ever

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Life

Exquisite fossils of Cretaceous shark solve mystery of how it hunted

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Environment

Climate change could make it harder to detect submarines

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Technology

Will Amazon’s robotic revolution spark a new wave of job losses?

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