8 reasons why space is worth getting excited about in 2017
It’s been a rough 2016 on Earth, so I wanted to share (just some of) my reasons why I think we should celebrate New Years as 2017 is looking incredibly exciting.

Everything from meteor showers and eclipses to epic space missions and more, 2017 will be worth looking up for and forward too.

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Alone in the park
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Sorry everyone, 2016 will have an extra second added to the end of it
For most of us, 2016 has been a crap pile of a year that just won't end.

Many of our favourite celebrities and scientists have passed away, the planet is warmer than ever before, and now, to drag things out, scientists will be adding an extra second onto New Year's Eve.

Yep, as you finally count down the end of 2016, you'll have to make it past 11:59:60, thanks to the addition of an extra 'leap second'.

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I hadn’t realized how dramatically our view of Pluto improved thanks to New Horizons' flyby.​

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Custom made Christmas present @Stephen got from his mum​
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NASA just released its incredibly cool concept for houses on Mars
NASA researchers have a lot of problems to work through if they want astronauts to one day set foot on Mars. One of the biggest hurdles is where these early pioneers will sleep and live, and after a day of brainstorming, engineers might have come up with a solution – a conceptual 'ice home' design.

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It's official: A brand-new human organ has been classified
Researchers have classified a brand-new organ inside our bodies, one that's been hiding in plain sight in our digestive system this whole time.

Although we now know about the structure of this new organ, its function is still poorly understood, and studying it could be the key to better understanding and treatment of abdominal and digestive disease.

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Scientists are attempting to bring back an enormous ancient cow
Scientists are close to bringing back a huge ancient cattle species called an auroch.

Aurochs roamed Europe for thousands of years until the last of their kind died in the Jaktorow Forest in Poland in 1627. They were 7 ft (2.13 m) tall and weighed around 1,000kg.

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Finland has just launched a world-first universal basic income experiment
It looks like 2,000 citizens in Finland will welcome the new year with outstretched arms.

These Finns are the lucky recipients of a guaranteed income beginning this year, as the country’s government finally rolls out its universal basic income (UBI) trial run.

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Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards
ON 11 November last year, a small birthday party was held in an apparently unremarkable hangar onthe outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. Nothing too fancy, just a few people gathered around a cake. The honourees were there. Well, sort of – they were still locked in the cage where they had spent their first year. But then again, there is no other way to treat a brood of antimatter particles.

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Bill Nye's new show on Netflix in 2017 - "Each episode will tackle a topic from a scientific point of view, dispelling myths, and refuting anti-scientific claims that may be espoused by politicians, religious leaders or titans of industry"
https://www.inverse.com/article/25672-bill-nye-saves-world-netflix-donald-trump

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Gotcha: Fast radio burst's home nabbed
A mysterious, recurring blast of cosmic radio waves finally has a home address. For the first time, astronomers have definitively traced a fast radio burst back to its source: a faint galaxy about 2.5 billion light-years away. The finding confirms a decade-long suspicion that these outbursts originate well outside our galaxy, although the mystery as to what’s causing them remains unsolved.

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DeepMind’s AlphaGo is secretly beating human players online
Google DeepMind’s Go-playing AI has done it again. After beating top player Lee Sedol at the ancient Chinese game in 2016, the AlphaGo AI has been secretly taking on more of the world’s best players – and beating them.

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A cure for ageing is near but you probably can’t afford it
FEEL that? It’s your body, slowly degrading. Ageing affects us all, and it leads to diseases that eventually kill most of us. No wonder so much research is going into creating an antidote.

If we come up with a way to slow, halt or even reverse the ageing process, we could potentially protect people from cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s. The idea is to extend “health span”, the number of years of good health a person enjoys. Extra birthdays are simply a bonus.

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Seriously guys, it's time to stop cleaning your ears with cotton buds
If you're in the habit of sticking cotton buds (aka Q-Tips) in your ears, snap out of it – that's the latest advice from the American Academy of Otolaryngology, which studies diseases of the ear and throat.

The Academy just published updated guidelines for ear care, warning against over-cleaning your ears and sticking anything inside them – including cotton buds – and advising people to ask for medical help if they experience issues with hearing.

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