Pristine mountains are being littered with microplastics from the air
15 April 2019
Tiny particles of plastic are being blown on the wind, ending up in remote areas over a hundred kilometres away from cities
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The 2018 heatwave may not have been possible without climate change
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We already knew that climate change made the 2018 heatwave more likely, but now some researchers have said it wouldn't have been possible without it
A touchy-feely part of the brain helps you enjoy a gentle caress
15 April 2019
A part of the brain involved with self-awareness, called the insular cortex, appears to be linked to why a tender stroke on the skin can feel nice
Scientists must worry in public about the dangers of their creations
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The US Department of Defense is ending its contract with cold war-era advisory group JASON. That’s OK – today’s scientists need to air concerns in public, says Audra J. Wolfe
How hackers use tricks to make money from your clicks
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Online clicks are worth big money. Now hackers are using a cunning set of click-tricks to make money from people visiting websites without them realising
NASA traced a meteorite back to its original home in deep space
12 April 2019
An impact in the inner asteroid belt 22 million years ago was responsible for a meteorite shower over Turkey in 2015
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has flown its first commercial flight
12 April 2019
The Falcon Heavy rocket’s maiden flight was last February, but now it has launched a satellite for a paying customer for the first time, which is a big step for SpaceX
Even remote mountain glaciers are contaminated with microplastics
12 April 2019
Plastics are leaving no corner of the planet untouched. Tiny pieces, called microplastics, have now been found in a mountain glacier for the first time
Israel's Beresheet lunar lander has crashed on the moon
11 April 2019
The first privately funded lunar lander, SpaceIL’s Beresheet spacecraft, suffered an engine failure and crashed as it was attempting to land on the moon
What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home?
11 April 2019
Astronaut twin brothers Scott and Mark Kelly took part in a unique space travel experiment and it turns out that space changes your urine but not your faeces
