Changing the rules of chess can make the game more complexRichard Levine/Alamy Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions…
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Artist’s impression of the free-floating planet lensing light from a distant sourceJ. Skowron/OGLE Nearly 10,000 light years away, a planet…
The MMX probe will visit Mars’s moonsJAXA The mystery of how Mars acquired its moons, Phobos and Deimos, may start…
Flocean’s subsea desalination podFlocean Turning seawater into drinking water is so costly and energy-intensive that it’s untenable in most parts…
Valar Atomics’ Ward 250 reactor under constructionDaria Nagovitz/Valar Atomics Despite providing nearly a fifth of US electricity generation, nuclear power…
Achieving a healthy weight could become more and more attainable as time goes onMerch Hub/Shutterstock The past few years have…
Not stopping on a run when you feel the urge helps practise self-controlmiljko/Getty Images Olivia Remes is a mental health…
Deimagine/Getty Images/Ryan Wills Thomas Anderson – otherwise known as Neo – is walking up a flight of stairs when he…
LSD can enhance the brain’s ability to rewire itself, potentially dampening anxietyTUMEGGY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES Two major trials investigating the…
Quantum computers are well-matched to solve chemistry problemsMarijan Murat/dpa/Alamy Whether quantum computers can actually solve practical problems is one of…