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The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close ...

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Forty years ago, the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl sent plumes of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Now, New ...

A small comet has been spotted slowing down and then speeding up again – but in the opposite direction, which we have never ...

If the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation shut down, the knock-on effects could release hundreds of billions of ...