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LightSail 2 above the Earth

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LightSail 2 has used sunlight alone to steer around Earth

The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft has fulfilled its mission, demonstrating controlled solar sailing in orbit around Earth for the first time

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What if you could erase your political opponents? Sci-fi has answers

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What if you could erase your political opponents? Sci-fi has answers

Culture

To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

Physics

To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

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Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

Physics

Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world

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Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture

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Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture

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Nasa's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

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Three newly discovered exoplanets orbit a star 73 light years away

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Cholesterol

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Cholesterol

Awkward truths about Boris Johnson's praise for UK science and tech

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Awkward truths about Boris Johnson's praise for UK science and tech

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What happened when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter

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women on the ISS

Space

After years of sexism in space we urgently need more female astronauts

Getting more women into space is essential if we're ever to run longer missions or even set up colonies off-planet. To do so we need a better understanding of how human bodies will cope in outer space

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Tiny pebbles may be the reason most planets spin in the same direction

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Carbohydrates

Space

LightSail 2 unfurls solar sail and begins travelling through space

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India has launched its Chandrayaan 2 mission to the moon

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