AT FIRST, it was a whisper. Now it has become a shout: there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the cosmos. When we measure the …
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A BOARD a small boat in Biscayne Bay, Florida, Raynell Morris (Squil-le-he-le) beats a steady rhythm on a handheld drum. When she shouts towards the …
LURKING in the air, water, soil and inside every other living creature, viruses have us surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered. For every star in the …
Season two of His Dark Materials begins exactly where we left off in series one, with Lyra and her daemon Pan washed up in a strange new world. Here, …
China launched its Chang’e 5 spacecraft on 23 November, in the first mission designed to bring moon rocks back to Earth in more than four decades. The …
Goodnight, moon. Earlier this year, astronomers found a minimoon orbiting Earth. It has now drifted away, but we should soon be able to detect more …
Some of the oldest evidence of bone disease may have been caused by tiny 83-million-year-old parasites infecting a titanosaur, which are among the …
A MICROSCOPIC worm that has been studied by biologists for decades has been hiding a secret: it can make milk to feed its young – and it does so in a …
A robotic cargo vessel has passed through the Panama Canal for the first time. The ship, an Overlord uncrewed surface vessel belonging to the US …
IT LOOKS likely that some countries will soon be able to vaccinate at least some people against the coronavirus, but until vaccines are widely …
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The proportion of people who die after being infected by the coronavirus has become highly controversial. Some have claimed that death rates aren’t …
The Duelling Dinosaurs are just the sort of remains that fossil fans dream about. Encased in huge lumps of tan sandstone are the dark bones of two …
I HAVE always been fascinated by people’s cultural relationship with plants. You might assume understanding this is all about voyaging up the Amazon …
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Photographer David Gardner THIS landscape looks more like a bizarre film set than a real place. What was once a desert occupying more than 40 square …
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What you need Internet access A web browser opened to galaxyzoo.org Citizen science will appear every four weeks I AM peering deep into the cosmos. I can …
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Issue 3310 28 November 2020 Editor's Pick Members of the Native American Lummi Nation consider a captive orca called Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut to be their …