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NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its deepest dive ever through the spray of ice, vapour and salt erupting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus – and took incredible photos in the process

The Al-Qaida-held city of Mukalla has been battered by the cyclone since it made landfall in a country currently in the midst of civil war

The Red Planet's gravity is slowly shredding its largest moon, which is already a rubble pile with a thin shell of dust

Coal-free, low-emission, high growth. That could be the future of the currently resource-dependent Australia, as long as politicians take action

A device developed to monitor US military pilots looks at biomarkers in breath to spot the first signs of hypoxia, allowing action to be taken earlier

The figures in a new UN report show that limiting global warming to 2 °C is now nigh on impossible

A peculiar Spanish fossil from 11.6 million years ago suggests that the ancestor of all apes might have been more like gibbons and less like great apes

A massive study suggests that even resource-dependent Australia could fully decarbonise and still enjoy economic growth, if politicians take action

Uncannily real A robot can look too human, and yet not human enough. Maya Mathur and her colleagues at Stanford University in California asked people to say how likeable they found 80 robot faces. As the faces shifted from robotic to more human, likeability scores went up, then plunged, then climbed back up again near […]

Move over Columbo. By studying courtroom videos, a computer has learned to detect the facial expressions of liars so well it can beat the best interrogators