Record-breaking number of qubits entangled in a quantum computer
A group of 51 superconducting qubits have been entangled inside a quantum computer, not just in pairs but in a…
DeepMind AI with built-in fact-checker makes mathematical discoveries
The AI company DeepMind claims it has developed a way to harness the creativity of chatbots to solve mathematical problems…
Hobbit hominins from Indonesia may have had even smaller ancestors
An arm bone from an ancient human that lived 700,000 years ago on the island of Flores is the smallest…
Black hole’s jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology
Spanning 23 million light years, or 220 Milky Way galaxies, a set of giant, newly discovered black hole jets known…
Why bizarre Cold War hoverboats are making a comeback
Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet…
Stone tools in Filipino cave were used to make ropes 40,000 years ago
Marks on stone tools found in the Tabon Caves on Palawan island in the Philippines suggest they were used for…
Super-heavy oxygen hints at problem with the laws of physics
An unprecedentedly heavy version of oxygen is significantly less stable than expected, which suggests a problem our understanding of the…
Moderna’s improved mRNA covid-19 vaccine is effective at lower doses
A streamlined version of Moderna’s vaccine that targets only key parts of the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is…
AI made from living human brain cells performs speech recognition
A biocomputing system consisting of living brain cells learned to recognise the voice of one individual from hundreds of sound…
Neanderthal child may have had Down’s syndrome
A fossil bone displaying features consistent with Down’s syndrome belonged to a Neanderthal child who survived beyond 6 years old,…