Science & Tech
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For The First Time In 18 Years, 5 Planets And The Moon Are About To Line Up In The Sky
This month, five planets visible to the naked eye are aligning in the sky in…
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Physicists Say They’ve Built An Atom Laser That Can Run ‘Forever’
A new breakthrough has allowed physicists to create a beam of atoms that behaves the…
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Did China’s FAST Telescope Just Discover Aliens? Here’s What You Need To Know
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." – Carl Sagan (Cosmos, 1980)
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Astronomers In China Claim Possible Detection of ‘Extraterrestrial Civilizations’
China is claiming that its enormous "Sky Eye" telescope may have picked up trace signals…
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Scientists Have Developed ‘Living’ Skin For Robots, And It’s Quite Something
By Tessa Koumoundouros | Science Alert From Talos, the giant bronze automaton who guarded the princess Europa in ancient Greek myths,…
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Building Blocks of Life Were Found On An Asteroid In Space For The Very First Time
For the first time, scientists have found the building blocks for life on an asteroid…
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Japan Is Dropping A Gargantuan Turbine Into The Ocean To Harness ‘Limitless’ Energy
Deep beneath the waves there’s a source of power quite unlike any other. To tap…
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A New Mystery Signal Is Repeating From A Distant Galaxy, And It’s A Weird One
A newly discovered source of repeating fast radio bursts has deepened the mystery of what,…
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Huge 4 Day Work Week Experiment Begins in The UK: The Largest Ever Conducted
For thousands of lucky people, the work week is now only four days long –…
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5 Planets Are About To Line Up In The Sky, And You Don’t Even Need A Telescope
Sky watchers have something extra special to look forward to later in June, as all…
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Interstellar Travel Could Be Possible Even Without Spaceships, Scientist Says
In about 5 billion years, the Sun will leave the main sequence and become a…
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Nuclear Fusion Can Unleash Even More Power Than We Realized, Scientists Say
Future fusion reactions inside tokamaks could produce much more energy than previously thought, thanks to…
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Astronomers Have Found A Super Earth Near The Habitable Zone of Its Star
The very tiny motion of a small star has revealed the presence of a super-Earth…
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A Spectacular Meteor Shower Might Hit Us This Weekend. Here’s What To Expect
As Earth orbits the Sun, it plows through dust and debris left behind by comets…
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Meteorites Could Have Brought All 5 Genetic ‘Letters’ of DNA To Early Earth
These key building blocks of life were found in space rocks, scientists confirm.
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Cats Remember Each Other’s Names, Japanese Study Suggests
They may act aloof, and generally behave as if they live on a higher plane…
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For The First Time, Scientists Have Grown Plants In Moon Dirt. It Didn’t Go Great
If lunar soil were to prove an amenable medium for growing fresh crops, that would…
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Scientists Have Powered A Basic Computer With Just Algae For Over 6 Months
In a ghastly vision of a future cut off from sunlight, the machine overloads in…
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There’s a Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend! Here’s Your Complete Guide
The first eclipse season of 2022 reaches its climax this coming weekend, with a fine…