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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"
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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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NASA is sending a probe to a bizarre metallic world
NASA has green-lit a plan to send a probe to a strange metal asteroid called 16 Psyche, which experts think could be the core of an ancient planet, stripped bare of its original surface and outer crust.

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London breaches annual air pollution limit for 2017 in just five days
London has breached its annual air pollution limits just five days into 2017, a “shameful reminder of the severity of London’s air pollution”, according to campaigners.

By law, hourly levels of toxic nitrogen dioxide must not be more than 200 micrograms per cubic metre (µg/m3) more than 18 times in a whole year, but late on Thursday this limit was broken on Brixton Road in Lambeth.

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What would happen if the Earth abruptly stopped spinning for 42 seconds?

This answer assumes that the earth stops suddenly for 42 seconds and then starts spinning at its normal speed.

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