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Space
Empty universe: Cosmology in the year 100 billion
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Space
Two planets found sharing one orbit
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Space
Blue lions: The search for rogue planets
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Space
Saturn’s strange propellers show how planets are born
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Physics
What’s eating the stars out of our galaxy’s heart?
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Space
Shields up! Force fields could protect Mars missions
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Physics
Entangled photons available on tap
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Life
Did exploding stars shatter life’s mirror?
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Physics
Time waits for no quasar 鈥� even though it should
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Physics
Revealed: why hot water freezes faster than cold
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Physics
Dark power: Grand designs for interstellar travel
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Physics
Mystery ‘dark flow’ extends towards edge of universe
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