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Space

Hiding in plain sight: The mystery of the sun's missing matter

A mass equivalent to 1500 Earths has vanished from the sun. Tracking it down could transform how we see the stars

Features

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Physics

Roadside barrier that folds like origami blocks traffic noise

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Illustration of colliding neutron stars

Space

Gravitational waves have let us see huge neutron stars colliding

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Physics

How to beat the bookies by turning their odds against them

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The Milky Way

Space

We can finally map the spiral arm on the far side of the galaxy

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Technology

The blushing Englishman who stole nuclear secrets from the US

Features

Art of auto rickshaw

Technology

Illuminating India: The genius of making a little go a long way

Culture

A moon base

Space

It was always crazy to shoot for Mars before colonising the moon

Comment

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Space

Culture picks: Read your way into (almost) any science subject

Culture

A man in a lab coat at a desk

Humans

Most science papers turn out to be wrong. It’s time to fix that

Research findings often crumble under the microscope. Rows over the best way to fix this must end so we can stop trust in science crumbling too, says Robert Matthews

Comment

Space

Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found

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Technology

Light-filtering paint cools your home when exposed to hot sun

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Humans

Nobel prizes would be better without all the fame and fortune

Comment

Technology

We can’t ever know whether or not our universe is a simulation

Analysis