Science
Discoveries, laboratories and the night sky.
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How to watch this month's supermoon
A supermoon is simply a full moon that coincides with the closest point in the moon's slightly elliptical orbit. The difference in size is about seven per cent…
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From swab to sequence
Every sample that enters the lab arrives in a sealed, labelled bag with a barcode that will follow it for the rest of its life. Scan, log, refrigerate: the ro…
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A new frog, found by listening
The survey team had been recording night-time soundscapes in the reserve for two seasons when a call turned up that matched nothing in the archive. It took an…
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A quantum processor clears another bar
The device is unremarkable to look at: a slab of patterned metal on a cooled substrate, photographed in a presentation case. What it did last month was run a …