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Hayabusa 2 near Ryugu

Space

Sample of asteroid Ryugu brought to Earth is a strange dark colour

Last year, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and now the first analysis of the rock shows it has a primitive composition and a curiously dark colour

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S0J9ED Cascade hops fresh off of the vine.

Humans

How climate change is shaking up the hops that give beer its flavour

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Hiroshi Ezura, a professor of genetic engineering at the University of Tsukuba, with his genome edited tomato plant (Naoki Shoji).

Technology

2021 in review: CRISPR-edited food goes on sale to public

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Mary Robinette Kowal: An exclusive short story for Â鶹´«Ã½

Technology

Mary Robinette Kowal: An exclusive short story for Â鶹´«Ã½

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Humans

Snowflake spotters needed to give climate science a boost

Regulars

The secret life of cheese: How marvellous microbes create its flavour

Life

The secret life of cheese: How marvellous microbes create its flavour

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VAN HORN, TEXAS - JULY 20: Blue Origin???s New Shepard crew (L-R) Oliver Daemen, Mark Bezos, Jeff Bezos, and Wally Funk hold a press conference on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. Mr. Bezos and the crew that flew with him were the first human spaceflight for the company. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Space

2021 in review: Space tourism begins – for billionaires, anyway

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Six pointed snowflake

Humans

Kenneth Libbrecht interview: A grand unified theory of snowflakes

Features

On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3. Picuted here is a lighten blended version of the 304 and 171 angstrom wavelengths. Cropped Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA???s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA???s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency???s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram

Space

Monster cloud of plasma spotted spewing out of a distant star

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James Leidner spent three nights in a high-tech sleeping bag that unloads pressure in the brain by suctioning fluids into the lower body. NASA hopes the sack can be used by astronauts in space to alleviate the vision problems they commonly endure during longer missions.

Space

High-tech space sleeping bag could stop vision problems in astronauts

Long spells in microgravity can alter eyeball shape, but a sleeping bag that applies suction to the lower body could prevent such problems

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Humans

We’ll never understand the universe while we’re drowning in admin

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Space

NASA is launching X-ray telescope to study the science of black holes

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Space

3 of the most exciting space telescopes planned for launch by 2034

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Space

How the James Webb telescope will rewrite the story of the universe

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