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Alex Wilkins

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Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids

Samples from asteroid RyuguJAXA Future astronauts could eat a nutritionally perfect diet…

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Planet spotted orbiting Barnard’s star just 6 light years away

Artist’s impression of Barnard’s star b, a planet in orbit around Barnard’s…

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Radioactive ion beam could target tumours more precisely

A PET scan of a mouse receiving radioactive ion beam treatment. The…

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Venus could be rocked by thousands of quakes every year

Venus may have regular quakes linked to the activity of volcanoes like…

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Hopes for new physics dashed by ordinary-looking W bosons at CERN

The CMS detector at the Large Hadron ColliderSciTech Image/James King-Holmes/Alamy Stock Photo…

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Huge new volcano has burst through the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io

This Juno image from February (right) reveals a new volcano that wasn’t…

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DNA computer can play chess and solve sudoku puzzles

A DNA computer can solve simplified chess and sudoku puzzlesKevin Lin A…

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Fuzzy quantum effects have been seen on the largest scale yet

Quantum effects result in particles behaving like waves that interfere with each…

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Discovery of ‘dark’ electrons could explain how superconductors work

Electrons that can’t be detected within materials still play a role in…

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Hellish conditions have warped an Earth-like planet into an egg

Exoplanets that get too close to their parent stars experience harsh conditionsNazarii_Neshcherenskyi/Shutterstock…

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