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NASA releases first close-up images of Pluto and its moons from New Horizons probe

Nasa has released the first close-up images of Pluto and her moons from the #Plutoflyby mission. Almost three billion miles away and nine years on,...

Cern’s Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new type of particle

Scientists working at the world’s biggest atom-smasher say they have discovered a new kind of particle called “pentaquarks”. The existence of pentaquarks was first proposed...

The ‘leap second’ explained in numbers

Science hardly gets more technical than the “leap second”. This is when clocks will momentarily freeze to realign the Earth’s slowing rotation with our...

A planet the size of Mars has just been discovered

A planet the size of Mars has been discovered 200 light years from Earth – the equivalent of measuring a pin head as far...

A woman has been fitted with ‘the world’s most life-like’ bionic hand

A woman born without a right hand has been able to ride a bike for the first time after being fitted with an incredible...

What can we expect now Philae has woken up?

A washing-machine sized spacecraft which made history when it became the first device to land on a comet last year has woken up after...

NASA lived on volcano for eight months to simulate Mars life

Six scientists who were living under a dome on the slopes of a dormant volcano for eight months to simulate life on Mars have...

Countdown begins for mission to discover whether there is life on Jupiter’s mysterious moon Europa

The question as to whether there is life on Jupiter’s mysterious moon Europa is one step closer to being answered after Nasa announced more...

750 dead amid India heatwave

More than 750 people have died in southern India since the middle of April as soaring summer temperatures scorch the country. The south-eastern states of...

16% of species on Earth may soon become extinct

One in six of the animals and plants on the planet could face extinction if nothing is done to reduce the rate of climate...

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