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Best electric toothbrushes for kids 2025
By Joanne Lewsley last updated
Buying Guide These are the best electric toothbrushes for kids, from Oral B Kids and Philips Sonicare for Kids to AutoBrush Sonic Pro.

Robots: Facts about machines that can walk, talk or do tasks that humans can't (or won't)
By Roland Moore-Colyer published
Discover interesting facts about what defines robots, what they can do, and if they'll replace humans.

China's '2D' chip could soon be used to make silicon-free chips
By Alan Bradley published
Advances in materials and architecture could lead to silicon-free chip manufacturing thanks to a new type of transistor.

Chinese scientists makes nuclear power breakthrough using abandoned US research
By Jane McCallion published
Scientists in China have refuelled a thorium reactor on the fly for the first time. The breakthrough is paving the way for working reactors that are significantly safer than conventional alternatives.

What is artificial superintelligence (ASI)?
By Edd Gent published
Our current AI systems may one day evolve into a superintelligent entity, but scientists aren't yet certain what this might look like and what the implications are.

AI can handle tasks twice as complex every few months
By Roland Moore-Colyer published
AIs can outperform humans easily on short tasks, but longer ones are the true hurdle to overcome before we can deem them to be truly intelligent systems.

EVs could charge 500% faster in freezing weather after new discovery
By Ross Kelly published
New research shows how coating a battery with a razor-thin layer of lithium borate-carbonate can lead to a 500% boost in charging rates when temperatures fall below freezing.

Scientists reveal the first operating system for quantum computers
By Peter Ray Allison published
QNodeOS is the world's first operating system designed for quantum computers and will enable connections between different types of quantum computers.

New benchmark will reveal when quantum computers overtake the fastest supercomputers, scientists say
By Alan Bradley published
A new benchmark performed on chips from five different vendors has indicated how we can measure QPU performance as quantum computers become more advanced and useful.

'Squeezing' Schrödinger's cat-inspired qubits could lead to more reliable quantum computing
By Peter Ray Allison published
A new technique improves the reliability of cat qubits by squeezing their probabilistic states. This could improve their reliability and lifetime, and pave the way for accurate quantum computing.
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