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Materials Science

Designer diamonds could one day help build a quantum internet

A new design in artificial diamonds stores and releases quantum information better than others.

Earth

Kilauea’s spectacular pyrotechnics show no signs of stopping

Watch some of the most striking videos and images of the strange, fiery beauty of the Hawaii volcano’s ongoing eruption.

Animals

Soaring spiders may get cues from electric charges in the air

Spiders can sense atmospheric electric fields, which might give them cues to take to the air.

Neuroscience

Nerve cells that help control hunger have been ID’d in mice

A mysterious bump on the human brain may be able to dial appetite up or down.