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Toughest ever heat shields made of springy sponge-like stuff

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Toughest ever heat shields made of springy sponge-like stuff

Chinese scientists have developed a compressible aerogel that has shown in early heat shield tests to be 5 times more resilient than previous materials

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Become a time lord with this remote control clock

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Carlo Rovelli

Physics

Carlo Rovelli: physics' literary superstar makes us rethink time

Culture

Why now doesn’t exist, and other strange facts about time

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Why now doesn’t exist, and other strange facts about time

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Quantum time: Is this where the flow of existence comes from?

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Lunar X Prize to put a rover on the moon has been resurrected

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Lunar X Prize to put a rover on the moon has been resurrected

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Down the drain - and into a 3D printer

Space

Astronauts could 3D print tools from their own processed faeces

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Chinese space station Tiangong-1 has finally fallen from the sky

Space

Chinese space station Tiangong-1 has finally fallen from the sky

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Mission Icarus: Inside the daring plan to touch the sun

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Start-up accused of launching mini satellites without permission

Space

Start-up accused of launching mini satellites without permission

In what seems to be the first unauthorised satellite launch, a start-up company may have sent four tiny – and potentially dangerous – satellites into space

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Space

Stunning shot of Jupiter's swirling storms taken by Juno camera

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Space

Was SpaceX launch about progress in space, or just a giant ad?

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Space

China's reckless attitude to space debris needs to change

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Super-accurate atomic clock used in real world for first time

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