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Lunar Crater Radio Telescope: Illuminating the Cosmic Dark Ages This illustration depicts a conceptual Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Moon?s far side. The early-stage concept is being studied under grant funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program but is not a NASA mission. Credit: Vladimir Vustyansky

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Could a huge lunar telescope be our best chance of spotting aliens?

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances that meant an optical telescope with an effective mirror size of 3000 km could be built on the moon

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We need to establish free internet access as a standalone human right

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We need to establish free internet access as a standalone human right

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Physics

Nuclear fusion gets a boost from a controversial debunked experiment

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In the village of Tshabula, villagers search for cobalt and copper in the waste tailings dumped by the lorries of the Chinese company Commus, which extracts minerals from one of the town's largest open-cast mines.

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Mining for renewable tech inflicts huge damage. Is there a solution?

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Chemistry

How superheavy chemistry could rearrange the periodic table

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Vagus nerve stimulation receives US approval to treat arthritis

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Vagus nerve stimulation receives US approval to treat arthritis

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RC9MHB Rome, Italy, 05/06/2018: a street artist simulates an invisible man on the pedestrian area along tevere castello near castel sant'angelo.

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How invisibility cloaks could make us disappear – at least from AI

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Social media is dead – here’s what comes next

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Social media is dead – here’s what comes next

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TOPSHOT - A prong extending from the CIRA-03 remote-controlled robot prototype approaches the mouth of a volunteer to extract a throat swab sample, as part of a self-funded project to assist physicians in running tests on suspected COVID-19 coronavirus patients in a bid to limit human exposure to disease-carriers, at a private hospital in Egypt's Nile delta city of Tanta, on March 20, 2021. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Can amazing tech reboot healthcare? A new book explores the future

Culture

We’ve discovered a new kind of magnetism. What can we do with it?

Physics

We’ve discovered a new kind of magnetism. What can we do with it?

Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us build an entirely new type of computer

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Will we ever feel comfortable with AIs taking on important tasks?

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'Flashes of brilliance and frustration': I let an AI agent run my day

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The 14 best science and tech documentaries of 2025 so far

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Health

Could hormone implants allow us to boost focus, endurance and libido?

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