NASA's method of paying for its giant rocket belongs in the Apollo era
3 April 2019
Contracts that leave NASA meeting all the extra development costs for its Space Launch System make no sense when firms like SpaceX offer fixed-price flights
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It’s time to change our approach to 'psychosomatic' illness
3 April 2019
Doctors have started making sense of a group of mystery conditions where people experience symptoms, but medical tests suggest nothing is physically wrong
The Great Barrier Reef is losing its ability to recover from bleaching
3 April 2019
Climate change has contributed to an 89 per cent decrease in the amount of coral replenishing the Great Barrier Reef
Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024
3 April 2019
The Trump administration has set NASA an ambitious goal of returning to the moon, but the agency doesn't have enough money or the right spacecraft to achieve this
Health regulator takes step towards lifting vaginal mesh implant ban
2 April 2019
Surgical mesh implants could be used again in England if certain conditions are met. But campaigners have expressed concerns about the new guidelines
Consider your child’s future before you share that ‘hilarious’ image
2 April 2019
Gwyneth Paltrow has incited debate by posting a photo of her daughter on social media. We need to consider how such images may one day be viewed, says Linda Geddes
AI achieves its best ever mark on a set of English exam questions
2 April 2019
The English language is difficult for machines to master, but one artificial intelligence is now top of its class after passing reading exams with the best mark for AI yet
We may have bred with Denisovans much more recently than we thought
1 April 2019
DNA analysis suggests that our species may have interbred with Denisovans at least three times, including in Papua New Guinea only 15,000 years ago
Incredible fossil find may be first victims of dino-killer asteroid
1 April 2019
A bed of bones from 66 million years ago may reveal what happened in the minutes and hours after an asteroid struck Earth and unleashed a mass extinction
Tesla’s autopilot tricked into driving on the wrong side of the road
1 April 2019
Three stickers placed on the ground can be enough to trick the autopilot on a Tesla Model S into driving on the wrong side of the road
