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When space rocks get too close for comfort
Mbale, Uganda (1992) In 1992, another person survived a direct hit by a meteorite. The same year that…
Read MoreCountry diary: The hours pass quickly when you’re brushing for trees | Fossils
We are at the Stori Brymbo heritage site, which was an iron mine and smelting plant until 1990.…
Read MoreEnglish warship sunk in 1703 storm gives up its secrets three centuries on | Archaeology
The English warship HMS Northumberland was built in 1679 as part of a wave of naval modernisation overseen…
Read MoreNASA-ISRO Satellite Lifts Off to Track Earth’s Changing Surfaces
From 464 miles (747 kilometers) above Earth, NISAR will use two advanced radar instruments to track changes in…
Read MoreHumans Orbiting Mars | The Planetary Society
Motivations This is an exciting but uncertain time in space exploration. For the first time in decades, NASA…
Read MoreSpanish discovery suggests Roman-era ‘church’ may have been a synagogue | Spain
Seventeen centuries after they last burned, a handful of broken oil lamps could shed light on a small…
Read MoreNeanderthals were not ‘hypercarnivores’ and feasted on maggots, scientists say | Science
For hungry Neanderthals, there was more on the menu than wild mammals, roasted pigeon, seafood and plants. Chemical…
Read MoreWorlds in swirls | The Planetary Society
Why send people back to the Moon? With higher costs and greater risk, crewed missions are inherently more…
Read MoreMargret Carey obituary | British Museum
My mother, Margret Carey, who has died aged 95, had a successful career as an ethnographer and bead…
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