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Medicxi launches $300m European late-stage life sciences fund backed by Google company

Verily joins Novartis and the European Investment Fund
20 Jun 07:58

NASA's Kepler space telescope finishes its original mission catalog

Fifty possible planets later, we're a step closer to a possible vacation Earth
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20 Jun 00:22

Is your research hot or not? US boffins create ‘Tinder for preprints’

Papr app lets you rate academic papers - and maybe find your ideal postdoc
19 Jun 11:24

Elon Musk reveals Mars colony rocket capable of bringing pizza joints to the red planet

'Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species' plan details how to get 1m humans to Mars
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19 Jun 07:30

You wait ages for a sun, then two come along at once: All stars have twins, say astroboffins

So where is our Sol's sibling?
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17 Jun 07:09

As you head off to space with Li-ion batts, don't forget to inject that liquefied gas into them

What could go wrong?
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16 Jun 19:57

Just like knotted-up headphones: Entangled photons stay entwined over record distance

Literally spooky action at a distance
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16 Jun 06:39

Fear the dentist? Strap on some nerd goggles

Patients frolicking by virtual beach felt less pain in the chair
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14 Jun 08:29

Voyager 1 passes another milestone: It's now 138AU from home

Tape drive due to shut down in 2018 as 1.4 kbps link becomes too skinny
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14 Jun 06:57

It came from space! Two-headed flatworm stuns scientists

The regeneration process continues to baffle boffins
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14 Jun 00:10

Curiosity drills into the watery origins of Mars

Minerals found in Mars rocks strengthen case for past life-friendly conditions
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12 Jun 22:46

We're not saying we're living in a simulation but someone's simulated the universe in a computer

Scientists fork reality, sorta
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10 Jun 10:29
wow

Has riddle of the 1977 'Wow!' signal finally been cracked? Maybe...

Updated...or maybe not. Opinion is divided
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10 Jun 07:19
Well-dressed man drinks whisky in expensive flat. Photo by Shutterstock

Whisky snobs scotched by artificial tongue

Boffins claim fluorescent dyes could help detect fake booze
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09 Jun 14:27
Wide angle image makes the moon look much bigger than the earth

Shoebox-sized satellites made by civs win trip on NASA's newest rocket

Three US teams clash in one far-out Robot Wars episode
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09 Jun 12:14

Science megablast: Comets may have brought xenon to Earth

Noble gas found on 67P by Euro probe Rosetta
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09 Jun 05:33

Feeling old? Well, we're older than that: Newly found Homo sapiens jaw dates back 350k years

PicsThat's 100,000 years older than the last fossil find
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08 Jun 05:37

Busted Russian casino hackers had an appetite for drugs and chocolate

Boris and the Chocolate Factory, with murder, extortion, bootlegging, bribery on the side
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08 Jun 02:56

Meteor swarm spawns new and dangerous branch

Czech boffins say source of Tunguska event has new asteroid-sized bits to watch
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07 Jun 06:29

Two hot Jupiters around two similar stars orbiting at similar distances look similar, right? WRONG

Cruel mistress science throws astroboffins a curveball
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06 Jun 13:04

Horror in space: Hot alien giant boiled alive by nasty radiation-belching star

Colossus suffers cosmic tanning session from hell
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06 Jun 07:03

Going to Mars may give you cancer, warns doc

Quick, let the Daily Mail know – add the Red Planet to cereal, cheese, tea, joy and other crazy carcinogens you must avoid
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06 Jun 05:28

'Fat boy' flies: ISRO's heavy rocket fails to blow up

GSLV Mk III pits new entrant into the orbital workhorse biz
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06 Jun 02:27

NASA brainboxes work on algorithms for 'safe' self-flying aircraft

Where's my self-driving plane? Nowhere, it's a feasibility study*
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05 Jun 15:08

Earth resists NASA's attempts to make red and green clouds

Strontium release dogged by normal boring clouds that blocked boffins' view
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05 Jun 05:04

ESA astronaut decelerates from 28,800kph to zero in first bumpy landing

ISS crew Thomas Pesquet and Oleg Novitski come home
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02 Jun 23:43

Boffins find evidence of strange uranium-producing bacteria lurking underground

It's easier to mine than uraninite ore, too
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02 Jun 20:05

Gay Dutch vultures become dads

Carrion parenting
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02 Jun 12:26
his low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called "Buckskin." The MAHLI camera on Curiosity's robotic arm took multiple images on Aug. 5, 2015, that were stitched together into this selfie. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Curiosity rover's crater 'offered multiple microbe-friendly environments'

Chemical analysis of Gale Crater finds Martian lakes were a lot like ours
02 Jun 05:58
Stratolaunch concept

Microsoft founder Paul Allen reveals world's biggest-ever plane

Twin-fuselage, six-engined satellite-slinger has wider wings than the Spruce Goose
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01 Jun 07:02

Spacecraft spots possible signs of frozen water on the Moon

Evidence could uncover how oceans formed on Earth
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01 Jun 06:03

Boffins play with the world's most powerful X‑ray gun to shoot molecules

It's all in the name of medicine, they say
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31 May 22:20
Corbyn thumbs up photo via Shutterstock

Strong and stable? Theresa May's election poll lead succumbs to outlier syndrome

Contextualising Jeremy Corbyn's improving numbers
31 May 15:10
Sun photo via Shutterstock

NASA Sun probe named for solar wind boffin Eugene Parker

Space weather announcement, forecast: SCORCHIO
Faceless fish. Source: John Pogonoski, CSIRO, via ABC

Boffins spot 'faceless fish' in strange alien environment

Chinese and Australian crews peer into the abyss and find weird things looking back
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31 May 07:25
Ready to go: India's GSLV Mk III

India sets June 5 as the day it will join the heavy-lift rocket club

GSLV Mk III to test itself on a 3,136kg sat, plans for 8,000kg payloads real soon now
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31 May 02:58
Apparent impact interceptor with mock ICBM

Pentagon trumpets successful mock-ICBM interception test

If they know where it comes from and how fast it's going: America defends against itself
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31 May 01:44
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