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A close-up view of a green comet

Green comet UK: How to see the once-in-a-lifetime space spectacle tonight

Northern quoll sitting on log

Endangered male quolls are choosing sex over sleep – and it may be killing them

City skyline at night with light pollution

Light pollution is obscuring our view of the stars. Here’s how you can help to reverse it

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How the neuroscience of uncertainty can help you make better decisions

Shapeshifting robot escaping a cage

Miniature T-1000-style robot can shape shift between liquid and solid states

Middle-aged cyclist winning race

How to embrace a midlife crisis, explained by a psychologist

People in UK street wearing a face mask

Kraken COVID variant All you need to know about the XBB.1.5 coronavirus strain

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Emotional blunting: Cause of common antidepressant side effect may have been discovered

Radio telescope image of the Milky Way

Radio telescopes snap stunning supernova remnants hidden throughout the Milky Way

A woman wears a face mask on the London underground

Have face masks become less effective at managing COVID?

Close up of the Sun's corona

Clingy atoms and catastrophic iron: The strange science underpinning nuclear fusion

Black hole surrounded by donut-shaped remnants of a star

Hubble Space Telescope spots hungry black hole twisting star into doughnut shape and chowing down on it

Tired woman working on laptop

How short walking intervals could combat the health impacts of prolonged sitting

Chimpanzee holding newborn baby

Critically endangered chimpanzee born at Chester Zoo offers new species hope