Luis Zea is investigating the possibility of mining metals from asteroids in space using an unlikely…
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The original Love Island: how George Sand and Fryderyk Chopin put Mallorca on the romance map
More than four million Britons watched Amber Gill and Greg O’Shea being crowned the victors of…
We spotted a star moving so fast it will enter intergalactic space
We spotted a star zooming through the Milky Way at 1700 kilometres per second – so…
Best ever map of Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped in an S-shape
The most detailed ever map of the Milky Way shows that our galaxy is not flat.…
Turtle embryos can choose their own sex, shows new research – but why?
The animal world has many weird and wonderful ways of having sex. Some animals, such as…
Finding signs of happiness in chickens could help us understand their lives in captivity
When animal welfare campaigner Ruth Harrison published a book in 1964 called Animal Machines, there was…
Mapping the kinks in faulty DNA
Here is a challenge for you: copy letter-by-letter, word-for-word a document that is 1,200,000 pages long—that’s…
Orchestrating development in the fly embryo
Most multicellular organisms on Earth—including you—begin as a single fertilized egg and then undergo a complex…
NASA targets coastal ecosystems with new space sensor
NASA has selected a space-based instrument under its Earth Venture Instrument (EVI) portfolio that will make…
Feeling Edgy
Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material,…