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The first Vulcan rocket launch will carry a private lander to the moon
A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket is being prepared to launch from Cape Canaveral in FloridaUPI / Alamy Stock Photo Provider: Alamy Live
The flurry of missions to the moon in 2024 is starting big with the first…
Artificial pain sensors could help robots avoid damaging themselves
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Artificial skin that can sense potentially harmful forces could help robots detect danger, in a similar way to how pain helps people avoid hazards.
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Stolen planet could be hiding on the edge of our solar system
When the sun was young, it may have stolen a planet from another nearby star - meaning an exoplanet could be waiting on the outer edges of the solar system for us to discover
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Largest stream of stars ever found could teach us about dark matter
The black streak is the newly discovered Giant Coma Stream, which is ten times as long as the Milky WayWilliam Herschel Telescope/Román et al.
Astronomers have found the biggest stream of stars ever recorded. This…
Strange nebula changes colour rhythmically like a mood lamp
An unidentified light source named VVV-WIT-12 (centre) seems to be making two sides of a nebula (circles either side) brighten and dim in opposite phasesRobertoK.Saito et al. 2023
A cloud of dust and gas in space,…
Bubble collisions underwater may create tiny droplets in sea spray
Sea spray can help seed cloudssomavarapu madhavi/Shutterstock
Very tiny droplets in sea spray can have a big impact on the atmosphere by helping seed clouds – and there is now a new way to explain how they form in…
Gaza’s phone and internet services have completely collapsed
Two million people in Gaza are without reliable communicationsAFP via Getty Images
Mobile phone and internet services have collapsed in Gaza under Israel’s intensifying military bombardment and “expanding” ground…
Under 18s who drive independently develop a better sense of direction
Driving alone at a young age may enable you to hone your navigation skillsThomas Barwick/Getty Images
People who drove by themselves before they were 18 years old have better navigational skills than those who did so…
Nobel prize for chemistry 2023 goes to trio behind quantum dots work
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov have been awarded the Nobel prize for chemistryNiklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach
The 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry has been given to three developers of quantum dots –…
Sci-fi author John Scalzi picks his top five corporate supervillains from Batman to The Incredibles
Syndrome, a “wannabe gizmo-inventing superhero sidekick” who becomes a supervillain in The Incredibles.© Disney / Pixar
In my latest novel Starter Villain, the book’s protagonist, Charlie Fitzer, inherits his…