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Stephen Hawking joins 1,000 researchers to co-sign open letter to ban killer robots

Professor Stephen Hawking has backed a call to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) technology being used in a “global arms race”. The celebrated physicist, who has...

Presenting Earth’s newly discovered ‘older cousin’ Kepler-452b

Spinning around a sun-like star 1,400 light years away is a planet scientists believe is not too distinct from ours. Its parent star is...

Potentially habitable planet found in Milky Way

An “older cousin” of Earth has been discovered orbiting a distant sun-like star more than 1,000 light years away. The world is 60% larger than...

Soyuz space capsule has landed smoothly on the International Space Station

A Soyuz space capsule carrying a Russian, an American and a Japanese has successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS). The rocket blasted off...

Scientists are developing a vaccine to tackle the cancer killing off Tasmanian devils

Scientists are hoping to develop a vaccine against an infectious cancer that is threatening the survival of the Tasmanian devil – made famous by...

Stephen Hawking has backed an exciting £64m project that will search for alien life in space

If aliens exist it’s really likely we will find out soon, after Stephen Hawking teamed up with a super-rich Russian entrepreneur, who has pledged...

Earth temperatures soar to new records

Earth dialled up the heat last month, smashing temperature records for June and the first half of the year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

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...

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