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Australia to ban nicotine-free vapes in push to end recreational use

Under new rules in Australia, e-cigarettes will be more tightly regulated as prescription-only pharmaceutical products and nicotine-free vapes will be banned completely

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Life

Male elephant seals with large harems die younger

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Technology

Smart glasses dim bright objects but don’t affect other things in view

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Mind

Brain activity of dying people shows signs of near-death experiences

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Health

Curbing fatty acid production in bacteria lowers antibiotic resistance

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Technology

Machine recycles scrap aluminium directly into vehicle parts

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Life

Animal deaths on UK roads fell sharply during covid-19 lockdowns

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Patterns and letters written in water

Technology

Underwater writing technique lets you draw patterns in liquids

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Technology

Cryptographers bet cash on when quantum computers will beat encryption

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Chemistry

Chemists are teaching GPT-4 to do chemistry and control lab robots

Augmenting the artificial intelligence GPT-4 with extra chemistry knowledge made it much better at planning chemistry experiments, but it refused to make heroin or sarin gas

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Physics

Quantum computers could simulate a black hole in the next decade

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Space

Our galaxy’s black hole may have made a huge X-ray flare 205 years ago

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Space

It may have been snowing on Mars 400,000 years ago

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Environment

Spanish heatwave: Is climate change behind record heat in Europe?

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