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Let's remember that extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence

Life

Let's remember that extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence

Several recent scientific findings, including signs of life on an exoplanet and 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf have caused a stir but when a claim seems too good to be true it probably is

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Space

Claims of alien life are overhyped – and miss the real accomplishment

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Space

Most accurate space clock to launch – and count down to destruction

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An artist?s impression of the Martian settlement SpaceX has envisioned. Image: SpaceX https://www.spacex.com/humanspaceflight/mars/

Technology

Inside the outlandish, futuristic dreams of the tech bros

Culture

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Space

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ recommends The Martian – sci-fi fun for all the family

Culture

Qubit, abstract illustration.

Physics

Space could emerge from time

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Space

How long is a day on Uranus? Slightly longer than we thought, it seems

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Tom Hanks plays Commander Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

Video

Astronomer reviews the sci-fi movies that get creative with physics

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Elizabeth Ruth Belville receives a timekeeping certificate from an official at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, circa 1903. Once Belville has the accuracy of her watch, which she calls 'Arnold', confirmed in this way, her task is to 'take the time' round businesses in the West End and City of London. Belville's work was the means of ensuring standard time in the city before the advent of radio.

Video

Ruth Belville: How the Greenwich Time Lady kept London ticking

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Space

We could make solar panels on the moon by melting lunar dust

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – and used to power – a moon base of the future

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Technology

The epic quest to redefine the second using the world's best clocks

Features

Physics

How nothing could destroy the universe

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Space

NASA cut $420 million for climate science, moon modelling and more

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Space

Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST observations reveal

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