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A round, smooth lump of amber in which a fossilised wing can be seen

Life

Beautifully preserved feathers belonged to tiny flying dinosaurs

Detailed amber fossils of wings from dinosaurs just 3.5 centimetres long suggest they flew like today’s birds. Such finds let us probe how flight evolved

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china rocket launch

Space

China plans for space station with most powerful rocket launch

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I tried out being a space trucker in a Dream Chaser mini-shuttle

Space

I tried out being a space trucker in a Dream Chaser mini-shuttle

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Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune

Space

Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune

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A space station in orbit

Space

China wants to share its new space station with the world

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Old flying car

Technology

Is Larry Page right, are we poised for a flying car revolution?

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The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray

Space

The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray

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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

Life

Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

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carbon nanotubes

Technology

Carbon nanotubes too weak to get a space elevator off the ground

Simulations show that just a single out-of-place atom is enough to ruin the famed strength of carbon nanotubes, so using them to build a space elevator seems unlikely  

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Space

Massive exoplanet’s close dance is making its star spin faster

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Space

Gravity probe LISA Pathfinder achieves best ever free fall

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Space

Idle Motion's Voyager struggles to clear the tower

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Space

Packing for space flattened NASA's inflatable space hotel

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