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Fears are growing for a juvenile whale that has spent more than a week in a Western Australia…
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When storm after storm battered the Mediterranean at the start of the year, drowning fields and sending water…
How public–private partnerships can turn Mars into an economic frontier (Op-Ed)
Futurists and science fiction writers have predicted privately funded missions to Mars for decades, but until recently, the…
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On the scale of the whole observable universe, matter is assumed to be spread out fairly evenly: enough…
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UK research at Cern to shrink as government approves STFC cuts
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Washington DC residents breathed in “unhealthy” air for hours after a 40-minute Independence Day fireworks show over the…
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A physicist built a ‘mini-universe’ out of ultracold atoms and watched time being born inside it.
For the first time, a physicist has experimentally watched time emerge from within an isolated quantum system —…
Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding
Sightings of blue whales and fin whales off Southern Africa’s Atlantic coast have increased in recent…