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Posted on September 17, 2015

New Pluto pics show weird terrain shaped by alien ‘water’ cycle

The latest downloads from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show a hazy nitrogen atmosphere backlit by the setting sun – and a landscape bizarrely resembling Earth









Posted on September 17, 2015

Cosmonauts are stars of the Soviet space age show

As Russia's most treasured space-age artefacts are unveiled at the Science Museum in London, Mick O'Hare relives the glory days of the race for space









Posted on September 17, 2015

Giraffes spend their evenings humming to each other

Biologists have long been curious to know whether giraffes produce any substantial sounds. Audio recordings from three giraffe houses in European zoos suggest they do









Posted on September 17, 2015

Patent for first method to create human sperm, but does it work?

French scientists say that they have a method for growing sperm from extracted testicular tissue, but they have yet to publish their results









Posted on September 17, 2015

Huge Chile quake was brewing for 5 years and more are expected

Magnitude 8.3 earthquake that hit Chile was partly due to a massive nearby quake in 2010 and does not relieve the risk of an even larger earthquake









Posted on September 17, 2015

Global study reveals soaring antibiotic resistance in India

Antibiotic resistance rates are so high in some regions that new drugs may not work unless misuse of antibiotics stops, say researchers









Posted on September 16, 2015

New look at antidepressant suicide risks from infamous trial

A fresh analysis of an infamous 1990s study has raised the rate of suicidal tendencies among teenagers given paroxetine









Posted on September 16, 2015

NASA spacecraft captures rare double eclipse of the sun

First the Earth and then the moon recently blocked the sun's light from the point of view of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory









Posted on September 16, 2015

Moonquakes discovered in data from 1970s Apollo mission

An algorithm based on speech recognition software has dug up hundreds of tremors on the moon that were missed by earlier searches









Posted on September 16, 2015

Pluto dazzles in first new images downloaded since July’s flyby

The New Horizons spacecraft has sent back fresh, stunning photos that it took of the distant icy world when it flew past on 14 July









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