Commercialising quantum computers

Today’s small, limited and finicky machines may yet have business uses

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Why funnel-web spiders are so dangerous to people

They have not had the chance to evolve not to be

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A burrowing dinosaur

Chinese researchers have found a fossorial fossil

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Natural disasters quicken an already precipitous global loss of species

Two new reports highlight how badly countries have been missing their biodiversity targets

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Davy Jones’s data-centre

Building server farms underwater is less crazy than it sounds

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A new global ranking of cyber-power throws up some surprises

America rules digital national security, China is not far behind

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Scientists find possible signs of life in the clouds of Venus

The discovery of phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere could redirect the search for life beyond Earth

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Wildfires will be more common in a warming world

Clever design of buildings and infrastructure can limit the damage

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Tanks have rarely been more vulnerable

Some armies are scrapping theirs. Others are innovating

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How the shark forgot his skeleton

Bony skeletons may be even older than palaeontologists thought

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