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Falling rocks can explode so hard that only nuclear weapons beat them

9 October 2018

If big rocks fall far enough they can explode with more energy than any non-nuclear bomb – and the ensuing shockwave can snap large trees half a kilometre away

Home of the gentle giants: How humans live with Galapagos tortoises

9 October 2018

The Galapagos archipelago is a growing tourist attraction, which is adding to the problems faced by the islands’ famous giant residents

Google+ to shut down after 500,000 people's personal details exposed

9 October 2018

The social network Google+ is shutting down for regular users, after it discovered a flaw in March that exposed personal information of up to 500,000 people

Jupiter’s moon Europa may have a belt of 15-metre-tall ice spikes

8 October 2018

Landing on Jupiter’s moon Europa will be even harder than we thought due to a forbidding belt of huge ice spikes that could trap or incapacitate a spacecraft

Naysayers rise to the top because we naturally treat them as leaders

8 October 2018

Openly negative and critical people are often elected leaders, perhaps because we perceive their disregard for social niceties as a sign of power and independence

A person looks at a building lit up like a game of Tetris

Three people had their brains wired together so they could play Tetris

8 October 2018

Three people played a game of Tetris using brain-reading caps. This is the first time several people have collaborated through brain-to-brain communication

Front-runner in Brazil’s election wants to pull out of climate treaty

8 October 2018

The far-right winner of the first round of Brazil's presidential election wants to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and cut down the Amazon rainforest

Economics Nobel prize given for putting a price tag on climate change

8 October 2018

The 2018 Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences has gone to Paul Romer and William Nordhaus for integrating climate change and technology into macroeconomics