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Meteorites may have brought water to Earth in the recent past

7 January 2021

We thought meteorites stopped delivering liquid water to Earth billions of years ago – but they may have continued to do so in the past million years
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Arecibo Observatory telescope in Puerto Rico collapses after 57 years

2 December 2020

The Arecibo Observatory telescope in Puerto Rico has collapsed, just weeks after the US National Science Foundation revealed plans to decommission the 57-year-old structure

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