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Land speed record bid could make space flight safer

Space

Land speed record bid could make space flight safer

The Bloodhound SuperSonic Car could have an important spin-off: a safer rocket engine

News

Unbreakable: The MIT time-lock puzzle

Physics

Unbreakable: The MIT time-lock puzzle

Features

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Physics

Super-accurate clocks emerge from 'heat haze'

News

Squid go into space – for the sake of humanity

Earth

Squid go into space – for the sake of humanity

News

Push to define year sparks time war

Space

Push to define year sparks time war

News

Medicines lose their potency in space

Space

Medicines lose their potency in space

News

Snapshots from a cosmonaut's photo album

Snapshots from a cosmonaut's photo album

News

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Snapshots from a cosmonaut's photo album

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Yuri Gagarin: 108 minutes in space

Space

Yuri Gagarin: 108 minutes in space

Opinion

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Physics

Starting over: Let's decimalise time

There are 12 hours in each day and each night because the Babylonians gave one hour to each sign of the zodiac. Surely we can do better

Features

Space

NASA kills off comet hunter

News

Space

Tourists spark era of space science

News

Space

Moon millions: Space firms chase Google's lunar lucre

Features

Space

Scientists get tickets to ride with space tourists

News

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