You ask me, putting Nike and Apple together on the same product is asking for trouble. You heard it hear first: those two behemoths together make an unstable mass, and we’re all going to get sucked in when it collapses into a branding black hole.

NASA’s Spitzer telescope has captured an unexpected anomaly. It seems that a stellar corpse of the type known as a neutron star is emitting continuous powerful streams of matter into space, in a manner only previously observed in black holes. That’s another few pages out of the cosmology rulebook.

Quantum cryptography is going to be all the rage pretty soon. But qubits? They’re old news. Austrian physicists are working on developing crypto systems based on ‘qutrits’, which have three possible states as opposed to the two that qubits can muster. More states mean more powerful ciphers, and enhanced security.

The good news: at high altitudes, the ozone layer seems to be repairing itself very nicely, thankyou. The mystery: at lower altitudes, it’s repairing even faster than predicted. If we’re lucky, the Antarctic ozone hole will have patched itself by around 2050.

Good news, sub-atomic physics fans! Japan’s Super-Kamiokande sub-atomic particle detector, damaged during maintenance back in 2001, is nearly fully repaired, and will soon be refilled with water for more neutrino-spotting antics!