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SpaceX’s most ambitious Starship flight yet will see reused hardware, the deployment of 10 fake satellites and another ...

For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing ...

This beautiful image shows Saturn re-emerging from behind our moon after a lunar occultation on 4 January. These occur when ...

Sticks found in a cave that date back 12,000 years and other archaeological evidence show how humans have long viewed the ...

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Fossil footprints uncovered at a quarry were left by huge herbivores and carnivores that walked Earth around 166 million ...

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We need to stop ignoring young people's firsthand experience with artificial intelligence. They are already at the sharp end ...

A fascinating exhibition at Oxford’s Bodleian Library explores archaic ways of telling the future. It is tiny, but explores ...

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