N ASA is planning a pretty neat experiment for later this year, setting deliberate fires whilst on the surface of the Moon, ...

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Neanderthals had a PR disaster in the century after their discovery in 1856. Up until fairly recently, they were dismissed as ...

Hiding in a museum collection lies what may be the world’s oldest known cannabis plant fossil. Dated to the Lower Eocene – a ...

Bizarrely – or maybe not, considering what can be a Guinness World Record these days – there is even a world record for the ...

An international team of researchers reports the result of an incredible experiment performed on Mars. It had never been done ...

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“Everyone learns many mathematical operations in school: fractions, roots, logarithms, and trigonometric functions […] each ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), responsible for the fact that Britain and Scandinavia are habitable, ...

The apparent absence of gravity affects both the body and mind in profound ways; new research shows that astronauts' minds ...

The spacecraft is nuclear-powered: it uses a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Decaying plutonium produces heat, and ...