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Fighting fakery: How to make products immune to counterfeiting

Alcohol, medicine, money, car airbags – you name it, it's been faked. Now tags you can't copy could block bogus goods forever

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Two-colour pixels let you draw pair of images in the same space

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The Renaissance gambler who invented probability to win at cards

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Plastic cubes injected into the body could replace booster shots

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Quantum computers could handle models that are too complex for us to run now

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This qubit redesign may make it easier to make quantum computers

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Physics

What if the diminutive electron isn’t as small as it gets?

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First underwater entanglement could lead to unhackable comms

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Atomic assembly lines are a small victory for chemists

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Atomic Legoland: How to build wonder stuff from the atom up

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Space

Science fiction picks: Time for a reality check

In this season’s crop of science fiction, the world turns to putty in our hands, we dodge “calendrical rot” and worry about absolute truth

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Eight great accidents in scientific discovery

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Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil

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Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo

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Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives

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