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Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

10 May 2017

Human clones, a colony on Mars, alien contact... what world-changing breakthroughs will come in the next decade? We asked the experts – with some surprising results


super Earth

New Super-Earth looks habitable and could reveal signs of life

26 April 2017

A newly found exoplanet is in the middle of its star's habitable zone and its atmosphere might have biomolecules we could detect


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Distant DeeDee could be a new dwarf planet

19 April 2017

New observations of an object beyond Neptune show it could be big enough to be considered a world in the same class as Pluto and Ceres


LHS 1140b

The five best exoplanets in the galaxy to check for alien life

19 April 2017

The announcement of a new habitable, “Earth-like” planet made us wonder – where should we look first?


Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet

Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet

6 April 2017

An exoplanet just 1.4 times the size of Earth has an atmosphere containing water and methane, new observations show


São Tomé grosbeak

World's largest canary discovered on island of giants and dwarfs

5 April 2017

An odd-looking bird named the “new finch” is actually the planet’s biggest canary – and it lives with other largest and smallest species on an isolated island


cartoon in a hospital

Feedback: Placenta pills promise new mums more Vitamin U

22 March 2017

Plus: an ocean cruise that circles the globe in a day, shining a light on the blackest of blacks, a dwarf planet made of muesli, and speed-reading the lastest John Scalzi novel.


Pluto and Charon

Discovery of tiny moon completes the set for worlds past Neptune

9 March 2017

The third-largest dwarf planet has a small satellite, meaning every object bigger than 1000 kilometres across in the outer solar system has a moon of its own


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Volcanoes: Oxford exhibition gives the fiery inside story

1 March 2017

An engaging exhibition and its accompanying book proves that exploring our relationship with Earth's most dynamic geology doesn't need to be sensationalist


Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

16 February 2017

The first evidence of organic material on Ceres opens the door to the possibility that other asteroids harbour precursors to primitive life


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