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Europa Clipper: Journey to an Ocean

Space

Why NASA is sending a probe to Europa – and what it’s looking for

Past observations have indicated that the icy moon of Jupiter has a vast subsurface ocean. Launching in October, NASA’s Europa Clipper will go there in search of evidence that it could support life

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Illustration showing three people doing different activities all drinking coffee

Health

The surprising science of coffee and its effect on both body and mind

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Long exposure view of Grj??tagj??, a small lava cave near lake M??vatn in Iceland

Life

Why the underground home of the world’s weirdest wildlife is in danger

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Wave

Environment

How climate change has pushed our oceans to the brink of catastrophe

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CT1EWH PROSTATIC CARCINOMA, SONOGRAPHY

Health

We are finally improving prostate cancer diagnoses – here’s how

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Mind

Why overcoming your cynicism could be key to a healthier, happier life

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Mind

Self-centred, spoiled and lonely? Examining the only child stereotype

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Astronaut inside the International Space Station using the combustion rack

Space

Five of the most important International Space Station experiments

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Space

Inside NASA’s ambitious plan to bring the ISS crashing back to Earth

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The days when the flowers produce lots of nectar, the bees remain outside the hive fanning, to better dehydrate the nectar when the forager bees come back from their journeys.///Les jours ou les fleurs donnent beaucoup de nectar, les abeilles restent ? ventiler ? l?ext?rieur de la ruche pour mieux d?shydrater le nectar pendant que les butineuses rentre de leurs voyages.

Environment

How clues in honey can help fight our biggest biodiversity challenges

There are secrets aplenty in a pot of honey – from information about bees' "micro-bee-ota" to DNA from the environment – that can help us fight food fraud and even monitor shifts in climate

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Humans

What made us human? The fossils redefining our evolutionary origins

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Technology

Will implants that meld minds with machines enhance human abilities?

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Space

Why we might finally be about to see the first stars in the universe

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Health

How much exercise do children really need – and what type?

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