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Humans

We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home

From artificial spiders to melting lead teaspoons, The Young Man’s Book of Amusement was a science primer of the weird, wacky and downright dangerous

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Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

Features

Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world

Physics

Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world

News

NASA has discovered our solar system’s twin with 8 planets

Space

NASA has discovered our solar system’s twin with 8 planets

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Trump directs NASA to send astronauts to the moon and then Mars

Space

Trump directs NASA to send astronauts to the moon and then Mars

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Bizarre supernova may be powered by hidden disc of dust and gas

Space

Bizarre supernova may be powered by hidden disc of dust and gas

News

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

Physics

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

News

The usual way of hunting dark matter may be all wrong

Space

The usual way of hunting dark matter may be all wrong

News

An astronaut outside the International Space Station

Space

No, aliens aren't lurking on the International Space Station

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Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

Space

Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

We just found 72 new galaxies in one of the most studied areas of the sky. We can’t see their stars, but they were revealed by the glow of hydrogen gas

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Physics

Hey, Flat Earther, no need to launch a rocket to test your ideas

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Life

Private mission may get us back to Enceladus sooner than NASA

News

Space

The 'space nation' Asgardia just launched its first satellite

News

Space

Should we seed life through the cosmos using laser-driven ships?

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