Science
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Could reusable rockets make solar geoengineering less risky?
Rockets could carry cooling aerosols to high altitudes Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Reusable rockets that deliver sun-reflecting aerosols to the top…
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The surprisingly big impact the small intestine has on your health
The US humorist Christopher Morley once described the human body as “an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing”. He wasn’t wrong:…
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Your forgotten memories continue to influence the choices you make
Neural activity gets fired up in different parts of the brain when we recall a memory Nopparit/Getty Images Even memories…
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The Milky Way’s black hole may be spinning at top speed
An image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy EHT Our galaxy’s centre…
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The prospectors hunting hydrogen along a US continental rift
New Scientist visited a hydrogen well in Kansas Hyterra/Adler Grey The drilling rig rises several stories above a field normally…
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The Ministry of Time review: Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller, part-romance
A 19th-century painting of John Franklin’s doomed ship Erebus, trapped in ice Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy The Ministry of TimeKaliane Bradley…
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How to use psychology to feel better about how you look in a swimsuit
Are these holidayers experiencing “seasonal body image dissatisfaction”? Shutterstock/puyalroyo It feels like we have barely left winter in the northern…
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Proba-3: Stunning pictures show the first ever artificial solar eclipse
The sun’s corona, shown similarly to how a human eye would see it during an eclipse, but through a green…
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The radical idea that space-time remembers could upend cosmology
If you wave your hand in front of your face, you won’t notice anything particularly interesting. Perhaps a gentle waft…
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Earth’s mantle may have hidden plumes venting heat from its core
Al Hajar Mountains in Oman L_B_Photography/Shutterstock A section of Earth’s mantle beneath Oman appears to be unusually warm, in what…
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