Japan’s SLIM moon lander has shockingly survived a third lunar night
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Almost all moon landers break down during the extraordinary cold of lunar night, but Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon has astonishingly survived three nights ..read more
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Quantum forces used to automatically assemble tiny device
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The very weak forces of attraction caused by the Casimir effect can now be used to manipulate microscopic gold flakes and turn them into a light-trapping tool ..read more
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Culling predatory starfish conserves coral on the Great Barrier Reef
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Targeted culling of crown-of-thorns starfish has resulted in parts of the Great Barrier Reef maintaining and even increasing coral cover, leading researchers to call for the programme to be dramatically scaled up ..read more
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Let's not trash recycling technologies that could end plastic waste
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Some environmental campaigners claim that attempts to create a circular economy for plastics are doomed to fail – but the arguments can be disingenuous ..read more
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Huge genetic study redraws the tree of life for flowering plants
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Using genomic data from more than 9500 species, biologists have mapped the evolutionary relationships between flowering plants ..read more
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Nuclear fusion experiment overcomes two key operating hurdles
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Two important barriers to a stable, powerful fusion reaction have been leapt by an experiment in a small tokamak reactor, but we don’t yet know if the technique will work in larger devices ..read more
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A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel quantum reality
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The Large Hadron Collider is testing entanglement in a whole new energy range, probing the meaning of quantum theory – and the possibility that an even stranger reality lies beneath ..read more
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Your diet may influence how effective vaccines are for you
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Obese mice that lost weight on a low-fat diet before getting a flu shot had better immune responses than those that lost weight afterwards, suggesting diet and weight loss influence vaccine efficacy ..read more
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Huge dinosaur footprints belonged to one of the largest raptors ever
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A set of large, distinctive footprints suggest a raptor dinosaur that lived in East Asia 96 million years ago grew to a length of 5 metres ..read more
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Climate change could make it harder to detect submarines
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Climate change’s effects on ocean water temperatures and salinity could shrink sonar detection ranges underwater and make it more challenging to spot submarines ..read more
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