Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack
Novel use of secondary thrusters made it second time lucky for Akatsuki, which botched its original encounter with the planet in 2010
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Mars moisture-farming mission gets approval for 2018 launch
An instrument that will collect and test water on Mars is to launch on the 2018 ExoMars mission. If it works, it could provide water for future crewed missions
Why one lake contains more than 1000 species of the same fish
The secret to the unique diversity of Lake Malawi's cichlid fish may be down to huge variations in climate and water levels over the years
2015 to see the first drop in fossil fuel emissions as GDP grows
This year fossil fuel emissions may fall for the first time even as the global economy grows – but more carbon dioxide is entering the atmosphere than ever
Pathfinder blasts off to look for Einstein’s gravitational waves
Live at the launch of ESA's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft on the 100th anniversary of Einstein's publication of the theory of general relativity
IBM to develop hardware to wipe out errors in quantum computing
Existing ways to store quantum bits are unstable, but IBM hopes to fix this with funding from the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
Drug combo halves the time needed to cure resistant TB
Regime rids people of the most stubborn form of tuberculosis in just nine months compared with 24 months – and comes with fewer side effects
Resistance to last-resort antibiotic has now spread across globe
A gene that allows bacteria to resist one of our last effective antibiotics has been found in Denmark and China, prompting a worldwide search
Northern Lights now appear in central Europe and much of US
A citizen science project is finding aurora borealis in skies of central Europe and much of the US, further south than satellite-based forecast models predict
