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Ammonites are among the most common marine fossils from the age of the dinosaurs, but no one has found one like this before. It shows one of the …

Quantum computing can be chaotic, but key properties of that chaos may actually help us develop useful devices. That is the finding of a study of the …

Issue 3319 30 January 2021 Editor's Pick Intelligent extraterrestrials may have built vast solar power plants around their host stars. The hunt for …