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Why is it seemingly impossible to stop phone thieves?

London is a phone-theft hotspot Jeff Blackler/Shutterstock Even if you have never had your smartphone stolen, you probably know someone who has. In London, 80,000

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Your passwords have probably been stolen and sold on the dark web

Hackers are after your personal data, for profit EThamPhoto/Alamy Make sure you use a good mix of characters. Avoid your pet’s name. Most of all,

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The prospectors hunting hydrogen along a US continental rift

New Scientist visited a hydrogen well in Kansas Hyterra/Adler Grey The drilling rig rises several stories above a field normally full of grazing cattle. Though

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How a US agriculture agency became key in the fight against bird flu

A dangerous strain of bird flu is spreading in US livestock MediaMedium/Alamy Since Donald Trump assumed office in January, the leading US public health agency

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Can we stop big tech from controlling the internet with AI agents?

Autonomous AI agents could soon be communicating across the internet Outflow Designs/iStockphoto/Getty Images What does the future of the internet look like? If AI firms

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US stops endorsing covid-19 shots for kids – are other vaccines next?

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr Tasos Katopodis/Getty One of the top vaccine experts at the US Centers for Disease

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Ancient humans evolved to be better teachers as technology advanced

As technology progressed, humans also got better at passing on skills to others English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images An analysis of more than 3 million years

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Trillion dollars’ worth of platinum waiting to be mined on the moon

Lunar craters could be a rich source of platinum NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Craters on the moon could hold over a trillion dollars’ worth of

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Any wall can be turned into a camera to see around corners

Technology for seeing around corners would be of use to the military Matthew Horwood/Getty Images An ordinary camera could soon take photos of things that

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The sun is killing off SpaceX’s Starlink satellites

An artist’s impression of a Starlink satellite in orbit La Nacion/ZUMA Press/Alamy Eruptions from the sun are shortening the lives of satellites in Earth orbit,