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Space

Australia is launching a space agency, but what will it do?

The Australian Space Agency, which officially launches this week, has a modest budget but hopes to encourage start-ups to get in on the space gold rush

Analysis

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Physics

How to think about... Schrödinger's cat

Features

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Physics

How to think about... Time

Features

entropy

Physics

How to think about... Entropy

Features

Calling men by their surname gives them an unfair career boost

Humans

Calling men by their surname gives them an unfair career boost

News

A wounded soldier

Technology

US Army has made a plastic bandage that swells to patch wounds

News

Artist's impression of a NASA habitat

Space

Colonists could use genetically modified bacteria to settle Mars

News

Stealth sheets can make you appear invisible to infrared cameras

Physics

Stealth sheets can make you appear invisible to infrared cameras

News

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Life

Vegan-friendly fashion is actually bad for the environment

Insight

Morphing magnetic shapes

Technology

Watch a 3D-printed magnetic critter fold and move all by itself

By embedding magnetic particles into rubber, we can 3D print little shapes that fold, morph, and move around on their own in the presence of a magnetic field

News

Technology

CERN-inspired artwork HALO will make the invisible, visible

Culture

Physics

Bent bird feathers repair themselves when soaked in water

News

Physics

Grape skins and stems can be turned into a greener plastic

News

Space

Halo Jones: return of the 50th-century galactic adventurer

Culture

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