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A whippet can accelerate from a standstill to 56 kilometres per hour in just a few…

A 2013 study found that bottlenose dolphins could recognise the signature whistles of…

For much of the past century, scientists believed dinosaurs were already in decline…

Cooling a data centre on Earth can consume 10 to 30 per cent of its energy budget and…

The debate over how many Earth-like planets exist has a wide range

Saturn used to be listed with 83 moons. Then astronomers looked harder, found dozens…

If microbial life is ever confirmed on Mars, on Europa, or in the plumes of Enceladus…

NASA tested a nuclear rocket engine dozens of times in the 1960s, proved it could work…

The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there…

The largest known volcano in the solar system is on Mars, and it is so wide that if you…
