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Jupiter’s moon Europa has ice that may glow green in the dark

Jupiter’s moon Europa has ice that may glow green in the dark

9 November 2020

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may glow in the dark, which could help NASA’s Europa Clipper mission determine whether the moon’s seas have the ingredients for life


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What a Biden presidency means for covid-19, climate change and tech

9 November 2020

US president-elect Joe Biden has said he will “listen to science” as he promised to take new stances on tackling covid-19, climate change and other key issues


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European weather services hit by storm of malicious email attacks

6 November 2020

Weather services across Europe have been caught in a storm of malicious email attacks in the past week, forcing groups to upgrade security measures and creating challenges for staff


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Iceberg the size of Cyprus on collision course with Atlantic island

5 November 2020

An iceberg the size of Cyprus is on a collision course with South Georgia, risking a major threat to the remote Atlantic island’s globally important penguin and seal colonies


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Men and women in early Americas shared hunting duties equally

4 November 2020

A young woman, buried with stone weapons 9000 years ago in what is now Peru, has led to a reassessment of the role women played as hunters across the Americas in prehistory


Weird space radio signal tracked to its source for the first time

Weird space radio signal tracked to its source for the first time

4 November 2020

Strange blasts of radio waves called fast radio bursts have been spotted all over the cosmos, and now astronomers have figured out where one came from


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Dash of potassium could help make long-lasting electric car batteries

4 November 2020

Potassium may hold the key to making lithium-metal batteries safer, which could pave the way towards longer-lasting batteries for electric vehicles


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Squid-like creature that looked like a giant paperclip lived 200 years

4 November 2020

An ancient squid-like animal with a shell like a 1.5-metre-long paperclip may have lived to be 200 years old


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