Simulations show a path to 'ideal glass' with crystal-like entropy

The types of glass that we encounter in everyday life, such as window glass or smartphone screens, are disordered solids. This means that they consist of particles locked in place, like those in ...
Science Focus

Here’s what your poop actually says about your health

Frequency is another important indicator of health. Most people poop once a day, but the NHS advises that it’s normal to ...

How dark chocolate can protect your heart, gut and brain (and the best bars to buy)

The popular treat has a host of impressive health benefits, but not all bars are created equal – here’s how to choose wisely ...
Opinion

AI willing to 'go nuclear' in wargames, study finds - amid 'stand-off' between Pentagon and leading AI lab

Researchers pitted three leading AI models against each other in a series of wargames where they assumed the roles of fictional nuclear-armed superpowers.

How technology is reshaping our minds

Technology is designed to create efficiency. It allows us to search, retrieve and analyse data faster, freeing us for higher ...

‘Clean power everywhere’: How space-based solar could help us go beyond net zero targets

These satellites would collect solar power using mirror-like reflectors and beam it to a secure fixed point on Earth (without the help of any robots). Here, it would be converted to electricity and ...

'My biggest regret': How forensic science is failing victims of crime

A new report shows that the forensic system in England and Wales is failing everyone from police, forensic scientists, ...

'Reporting the case is my biggest regret': How forensic science is failing victims of crime

A new report shows that the forensic system in England and Wales is failing everyone from police, forensic scientists, lawyers and victims of crime. | ITV National News ...

Wuthering slights: why are film-makers afraid of casting Yorkshire actors as Cathy Earnshaw?

Wuthering Heights is inseparable from its landscape – but northern actors seldom get the lead role, instead are pigeonholed as stereotypical or supporting characters. This Bradford-born actor objects ...
MarketWatch

College sports has a new money problem — and St. John’s may be the latest example: ‘It’s the Wild West’

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...

Deaths from ‘Britain’s fentanyl’ may be a third higher than thought

British police have underestimated deaths from an opioid 500 times stronger than heroin by as much as a third, research has suggested. Nitazenes – a class of synthetic drugs comparable to fentanyl in ...
Physics World

Entanglement reveals the difficulty of computational problems

Adiabatic quantum computing An example problem represented by an energy landscape. Each point on the landscape represents a candidate solution. The deepest valley represents the actual solution with ...