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Understanding Earth’s rotation in space is crucial for GPS navigation and now we have an extremely precise way to measure it with lasers and supermirrors

The launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been delayed from March 2021 to October 2021, partially due to measures to limit the spread of covid-19

Around 20 per cent of the beef and soya the Euopean Union imports from Brazil has been linked to illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna

People are struggling with uncertainty, isolation, fear and concerns about money or education – leading to elevated levels of anxiety and depression during the pandemic

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Sea turtles’ ability to navigate across open oceans is legendary, but GPS tracking shows they can miss their targets, sometimes swimming far further than needed

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the closest ever images of the sun, revealing miniature solar flares on its surface dubbed "campfires"

A summer of many Mars missions is about to began as the United Arab Emirates prepares to launch its first Mars mission, the Hope orbiter

The record-breaking heatwave that baked Siberia recently was made at least 600 times more likely by climate change, meaning it probably wouldn't have occurred otherwise

Artificial spider silk made from gel and silicone could be used to create sensitive robotic parts that are able to clean themselves

Ultralight cameras fixed to the backs of beetles can wirelessly live-stream to a smartphone, which can also direct the camera to rotate and get footage from different directions

Noctilucent clouds, silvery blue wisps that float high in our atmosphere, are a rare phenomenon – but rising greenhouse gas emissions mean we are seeing more and more of them

The potential rewards – and threats – of artificial intelligence are unprecedented, but it is urgent that we regulate it if we want AI to be a tool for good, not evil

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Short film The Ball Method tells the story of Alice Ball. She helped develop an effective treatment for leprosy, then a senior colleague claimed her work as his own giving her no credit

Agave uses a turbocharged version of photosynthesis that works in even the driest spots. As climate change threatens our food supply, the race is on to harness its power in more resilient crops

It is easy to regard the sun as humdrum, yet it contains elements blasted from the universe’s first stars as they died and is halfway through its 9-billion-year lifespan

Physicist Max Tegmark wants to make artificial intelligence work for everyone. Here he waxes lyrical about cosmology, consciousness and why AI is like fire

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