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Elements from the universe’s earliest stars gave birth to our sun

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Elements from the universe’s earliest stars gave birth to our sun

It is easy to regard the sun as humdrum, yet it contains elements blasted from the universe’s first stars as they died and is halfway through its 9-billion-year lifespan

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How many planets have been discovered?

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How many planets have been discovered?

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Alien civilisations could move their star to avoid a cosmic disaster

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Snowpiercer review: Step aboard a post-apocalyptic train mystery

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Snowpiercer review: Step aboard a post-apocalyptic train mystery

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Is there another planet in the universe just like Earth?

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Is there another planet in the universe just like Earth?

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What happens when a researcher tries to resurrect a loved one?

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What happens when a researcher tries to resurrect a loved one?

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Don't miss: Charlize Theron tries to avoid CCTV in The Old Guard

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Don't miss: Charlize Theron tries to avoid CCTV in The Old Guard

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Sectioned fragment from an iron meteorite that caused the Odessa crater in Texas, US, about 50,000 years ago

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The Sirens of Mars review: Inside the hunt for life on the Red Planet

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The Sirens of Mars review: Inside the hunt for life on the Red Planet

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How academic institutions make it harder to be a female scientist

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How academic institutions make it harder to be a female scientist

Picture a Scientist shines a light on gender discrimination in science – and also finds reasons to be hopeful, says Simon Ings

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How to avoid a techno-apocalypse brought on by the internet

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Minority scientists still face many forms of institutional racism

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Some hot giant planets get larger as they are heated by their stars

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Exotic fifth state of matter made on the International Space Station

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