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Did a Sun-like star quietly swallow one of its own planets, leaving behind a spike…
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How does an animal weighing less than a chocolate bar fly 13,000 kilometres across…
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Scientists expected the sun to enter a period of historic quiet after 2008, when…
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When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too…
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Two and a half kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a cubic kilometre of frozen…
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The second closest potentially habitable planet to Earth is not around a famous star
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A star near the centre of our galaxy reaches almost 3 per cent of the speed of…
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How does the closest planet to the Sun, with a surface that hits 430 degrees at…
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How does a pond in Antarctica sitting at minus 50 degrees refuse to freeze, year…
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A deep-water shark's liver can account for up to 30 per cent of its total body…
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A lion's tongue is covered in hollow, backward-pointing spines called papillae…
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Did prehistoric humans actually live in caves?
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In microgravity, the human spine lengthens by as much as five centimetres, and…
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A female shark can reproduce with no male at all
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