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Astronomers Find Remarkable Evidence The Guts of Some Exoplanets Are Similar to Earth's
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Astronomers Find Remarkable Evidence The Guts of Some Exoplanets Are Similar to Earth's
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Astronomers Find Remarkable Evidence The Guts of Some Exoplanets Are Similar to Earth's
Exoplanets. They're very small, and very far away. We usually have to detect them by indirect means. Direct images are rare, and not very detailed. Even working out what's in their atmosphere is difficult. So you'd think trying to analyse their int
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Peas, Quinoa And 7 Other Crops Grown Successfully in Soil Equivalent to Moon And Mars
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Peas, Quinoa And 7 Other Crops Grown Successfully in Soil Equivalent to Moon And Mars
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Peas, Quinoa And 7 Other Crops Grown Successfully in Soil Equivalent to Moon And Mars
If we're going to support ourselves on off-world bases then we're going to need to find a way to grow our own food, and now we've got more than a Matt Damon film to suggest it's possible – experiments run using lookalikes of Moon and Mars so
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More Than 20 Ancient Egyptian Coffins in Pristine Condition Have Just Been Uncovered
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More Than 20 Ancient Egyptian Coffins in Pristine Condition Have Just Been Uncovered
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More Than 20 Ancient Egyptian Coffins in Pristine Condition Have Just Been Uncovered
The Egyptian government is hailing the discovery of more than 20 wooden coffins as "one of the largest and most important" archaeological finds in the past few years.
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Antarctic Ice Sheets Are Still Leaking Radioactive Chlorine From 1950s Nuclear Weapons Tests
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Antarctic Ice Sheets Are Still Leaking Radioactive Chlorine From 1950s Nuclear Weapons Tests
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Antarctic Ice Sheets Are Still Leaking Radioactive Chlorine From 1950s Nuclear Weapons Tests
As if we didn't have enough to worry about, the vast ice sheets of Antarctica are still releasing radioactive chlorine, a new study has confirmed – the remnants of nuclear weapons tests carried out in the 1950s.
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Antarctica's "Sudden Stratospheric Warming" Has Started Impacting Australia
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Antarctica's "Sudden Stratospheric Warming" Has Started Impacting Australia
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Antarctica's "Sudden Stratospheric Warming" Has Started Impacting Australia
Record warm temperatures above Antarctica over the coming weeks are likely to bring above-average spring temperatures and below-average rainfall across large parts of New South Wales and southern Queensland.
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This Incredible Image Looks Biological But Is Actually a Strange, Exploded Star
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This Incredible Image Looks Biological But Is Actually a Strange, Exploded Star
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This Incredible Image Looks Biological But Is Actually a Strange, Exploded Star
In November 1572, a star exploded. It brightened in the night sky, until it was visible to the naked eye - a jaw-dropping phenomenon observed and documented by astronomers around the world, none more extensively than Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe,
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Gender-Specific Brain Cells Have Just Been Discovered Inside The Brains of Mice
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Gender-Specific Brain Cells Have Just Been Discovered Inside The Brains of Mice
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Gender-Specific Brain Cells Have Just Been Discovered Inside The Brains of Mice
Male and female mouse brains could have significant differences that reach right down to the cellular level, according to a new discovery.
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For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum Material
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For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum Material
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For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum Material
From tiny snowflakes to the jagged fork of a lightning bolt, it's not hard to find examples of fractals in the natural world. So it might come as a surprise that, until now, there have remained some places these endlessly repeating geometrical patt
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We Can't Stop Watching This Robot Hand Seamlessly Solve a Rubik's Cube
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We Can't Stop Watching This Robot Hand Seamlessly Solve a Rubik's Cube
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We Can't Stop Watching This Robot Hand Seamlessly Solve a Rubik's Cube
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence development company co-founded by Elon Musk, just built an AI-powered robot hand that can solve a Rubik's cube by itself.
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Scientists Discover 'Stormquakes': A Never-Before-Seen Geophysical Phenomenon
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Scientists Discover 'Stormquakes': A Never-Before-Seen Geophysical Phenomenon
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Scientists Discover 'Stormquakes': A Never-Before-Seen Geophysical Phenomenon
Hurricanes are one thing. Earthquakes are another. But these hazardous events aren't mutually exclusive, and sometimes one can even feed the other.
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History Has Been Made: NASA Just Carried Out The First All-Female Spacewalk
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History Has Been Made: NASA Just Carried Out The First All-Female Spacewalk
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History Has Been Made: NASA Just Carried Out The First All-Female Spacewalk
NASA made history Friday morning when astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir stepped outside the International Space Station to replace a faulty battery charger.
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Ancient Babylonian 'Omen' Has Helped Scientists Verify Timing of an Epic Solar Storm
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Ancient Babylonian 'Omen' Has Helped Scientists Verify Timing of an Epic Solar Storm
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Ancient Babylonian 'Omen' Has Helped Scientists Verify Timing of an Epic Solar Storm
More than 2,600 years ago, strange red clouds over Mesopotamia drew the attention of soothsayers across the land. Their royal reports have now helped confine the date of a severe solar storm that washed over the planet.
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Large-Scale Study Rules Out a Common Assumption About 'Narcissistic' Only Children
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Large-Scale Study Rules Out a Common Assumption About 'Narcissistic' Only Children
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Large-Scale Study Rules Out a Common Assumption About 'Narcissistic' Only Children
You might have heard the idea that being an only child means you're more likely to be selfish, spoilt, and self-centred – but the results of a new study show no link between being an only child and being more narcissistic.
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There's More to Consider Than The Habitable Zone When Searching For a Liveable Planet
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There's More to Consider Than The Habitable Zone When Searching For a Liveable Planet
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There's More to Consider Than The Habitable Zone When Searching For a Liveable Planet
In order to be considered habitable, a planet needs to have liquid water. Cells, the smallest unit of life, need water to carry out their functions. For liquid water to exist, the temperature of the planet needs to be right.
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For The First Time, Scientists Find Fat Can Clog Lungs And Airways, Not Just Your Heart
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For The First Time, Scientists Find Fat Can Clog Lungs And Airways, Not Just Your Heart
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For The First Time, Scientists Find Fat Can Clog Lungs And Airways, Not Just Your Heart
Many of you will be aware of how fatty build-ups in the arteries can increase the chances of developing heart problems, but now scientists have found early evidence the same sort of clogging could happen in the lungs – and it might be linked to a
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Another Reason Why We Might Have Never Seen Alien Probes: They're Tiny Micro-Machines
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Another Reason Why We Might Have Never Seen Alien Probes: They're Tiny Micro-Machines
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Another Reason Why We Might Have Never Seen Alien Probes: They're Tiny Micro-Machines
What if alien spacecraft are already in our midst – and we don't know about them because they're tiny nano-structures? That's the new idea put forward by one scientist seeking to explain the Fermi paradox.
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Underwater Volcano Could Release Noxious Gas Bubbles Bigger Than The Pyramids
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Underwater Volcano Could Release Noxious Gas Bubbles Bigger Than The Pyramids
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Underwater Volcano Could Release Noxious Gas Bubbles Bigger Than The Pyramids
For a fiery phenomenon we most commonly associate with magma-spewing mountaintops, it's easy to forget that some 70 percent of all Earth's volcanism takes place under the ocean waves.
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Psychologists Spot a Key Personality Trait That Could Be Shared by All Humble People
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Psychologists Spot a Key Personality Trait That Could Be Shared by All Humble People
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Psychologists Spot a Key Personality Trait That Could Be Shared by All Humble People
Psychologists have identified an important trait that could be shared by truly humble people - something called 'hypo-egoic nonentitlement'.