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2H2KWEE Orbits of planets in the Solar System

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How to catch a glimpse of a five-planet alignment this June

If you are up early this month, you might see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn line up in the morning sky, says Abigail Beall

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Japanesa milk bread

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How science can help you bake a loaf of bread that stays softer longer

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Do your own experiment to see if your teabags really are compostable

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Do your own experiment to see if your teabags really are compostable

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CNW7E8 ph value of a sample of the soil ist tested with litmus paper, Germany

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How to analyse your garden soil and choose the plants to suit it

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Image of the broken fragments surrounding Fragment B of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 observed with FORS1 on ESO's VLT in four filters (B, V, R, and I). As the telescope was tracking the comet, the stars appear as coloured trails, indicating the order in which the comet was observed in the different filters. North is up and East is to the left.

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Watch out for comet SW3, which might cause a meteor shower in late May

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How to make your own yogurt

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TESS spacecraft in front of Earth and the moon TESS will look at the nearest, brightest stars to find planetary candidates that scientists will observe for years to come. Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center As the search for life on distant planets heats up, NASA?s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is bringing this hunt closer to home. Launching in 2017-2018, TESS will identify planets orbiting the brightest stars just outside our solar system using what?s known as the transit method. When a planet passes in front of, or transits, its parent star, it blocks some of the star's light. TESS searches for these telltale dips in brightness, which can reveal the planet's presence and provide additional information about it.

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Search starlight to help astronomers discover new exoplanets

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Planting out sweetcorn in blocks.

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How to grow the best sweetcorn you've ever tasted

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How to spot Vega, the North Star of the future

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How to spot Vega, the North Star of the future

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Try cooking with ginger – a complex and versatile ingredient

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Try cooking with ginger – a complex and versatile ingredient

The subtle chemical complexity of ginger makes it an astonishingly flexible addition to both sweet and savoury food, finds Sam Wong

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Help to unlock the secrets of written language by playing Glyph

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Life

How to make the perfect bee hotel for your garden

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A planet-spotting extravaganza is coming, if you are an early riser

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How to perform the culinary technique of spherification at home

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