A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden…
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For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the…
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth.…
Of all the things that Donald Trump’s return as US president could mean, one is that Elon Musk’s plan to…
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American…
A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke,…
Could humans expand beyond their homeworld and establish settlements on the planet Mars? The idea of settling the red planet…
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can…
The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike…
Have you ever wanted to ask questions about the Earth, with no judgment? Moreover, would you rather get those answers…