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Before we bred them: what watermelons, bananas and corn looked like in the wild
The watermelon in a 17th-century Italian painting is mostly white rind and swirls; wild bananas were packed with hard seeds; the ancestor…
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Your tea bag may be shedding billions of plastic particles into the cup — what 19 studies found
A review of 19 scientific studies finds that many tea bags — including some sold as biodegradable — release micro- and nanoplastics into…
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The Ig Nobel Prizes leave America: why science’s funniest ceremony is moving to Zurich
For 35 years winners of the Ig Nobel Prize flew to Massachusetts to be pelted with paper aeroplanes. This year the ceremony moves to…
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Google’s Willow chip did in 2 hours what the fastest supercomputer needs 3 years for — and this time it can be checked
Google says its Willow processor has run the first verifiable quantum-advantage algorithm, using a "quantum echo" technique that could one…