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Data from atomic bomb tests conducted during the Cold War have helped scientists accurately age the world’s biggest fish. Whale sharks are large, slow moving and docile creatures
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This panorama of the Martian surface will leave you star-struck. NASA released the largest and highest-resolution panorama the Curiosity rover has ever taken on Tuesday, and, at close
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All year long as Earth revolves around the sun, it passes through streams of cosmic debris. The resulting meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to
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A creature called Caveasphaera lived in China 609 million years ago, and it left behind fossils that resemble tiny grains of sand. But as innocuous as those fossils
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A fifth force of nature could have been discovered after scientists carried out a “Nobel-prize worthy” experiment which could revolutionise our understanding of the world. Physics centres on the
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Richard Heede spent a decade digging through “disheveled, dusty” tomes in libraries around the world searching for the answers he thought could help save humanity. The Norway-born academic’s
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Microplastics are polluting tap water, the deep sea and now even remote corners of the Arctic. Scientists found concentrations of plastic in ice floes from the Fram Strait,
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Before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin knew they would be the first to walk on the moon, they took crash courses in geology at the Grand Canyon and
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Scientists have discovered a supersized version of Earth that could host life on a distant galaxy. The planet, named K2-18b, has been dubbed a rocky “super earth” that
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It’s one of our most primal instincts. It’s hardwired into our very being. It’s also amazingly adaptive. We wince at the sudden sight of a hairy spider because
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